[gentoo-user] Emerging gnome-light without X support

[gentoo-user] Emerging gnome-light without X support

[Rafael Fernández López]

Hi guys,

This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is possible
to emerge gnome-light with X="... -X gtk gtk2 gnome ...".

Thank you,
Rafael Fernández López.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gnome-light without X support

[Rafael Fernández López]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:21:21PM +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is possible
> to emerge gnome-light with X="... -X gtk gtk2 gnome ...".

In what the hell I was thinking... I wanted to say USE="... -X gtk
gtk2 gnome".

Thank you again,
Rafael Fernández López.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging gnome-light without X support

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 11 September 2006 12:21, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is
> possible to emerge gnome-light with X="... -X gtk gtk2 gnome
> ...".

But even if you did get it to compile with -X, the concept 
doesn't make sense. The whole point of gnome (and gnome-light 
is just a minimal subset of that) is to display stuff on the 
screen and for that you require X, so leave it in the USE flags 
so portage can do the right thing.

Why do you want to do such a thing anyway?

alan


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[gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support

[Harm Geerts]

On Monday 11 September 2006 12:31, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 11 September 2006 12:21, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is
> > possible to emerge gnome-light with X="... -X gtk gtk2 gnome
> > ...".

No, it isn't.

> But even if you did get it to compile with -X, the concept
> doesn't make sense. The whole point of gnome (and gnome-light
> is just a minimal subset of that) is to display stuff on the
> screen and for that you require X, so leave it in the USE flags
> so portage can do the right thing.
>
> Why do you want to do such a thing anyway?

If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile 
xorg-server with USE="minimal". Then gnome can link to the libraries it needs 
but you don't need to install a complete X server.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support

[Rafael Fernández López]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
> If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile 
> xorg-server with USE="minimal". Then gnome can link to the libraries it needs 
> but you don't need to install a complete X server.

Yes, I wanted a remote X server. OK, I'll add "minimal" flag to my USE
variable.

Thanks,
Rafael Fernández López.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support

[Steve McGrath]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:23 +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
> > If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile 
> > xorg-server with USE="minimal". Then gnome can link to the libraries it needs 
> > but you don't need to install a complete X server.
> 
> Yes, I wanted a remote X server. OK, I'll add "minimal" flag to my USE
> variable.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael Fernández López.

You probably don't want to add "minimal" to your global USE variable,
use /etc/portage/package.use instead

echo "x11-base/xorg-server minimal" >> /etc/portage/package.use

HTH

-Steve

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[gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support

[Harm Geerts]

On Monday 11 September 2006 16:23, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
> > If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile
> > xorg-server with USE="minimal". Then gnome can link to the libraries it
> > needs but you don't need to install a complete X server.
>
> Yes, I wanted a remote X server. OK, I'll add "minimal" flag to my USE
> variable.

Don't add it to your global USE flags !
The minimal flag is used by several packages but you only need to activate it 
for a single package. You might end up with a seriously impaired system if 
you add it to your global flags.

To activate the minimal flag only for x11-base/xorg-server add it 
to /etc/portage/package.use

echo "x11-base/xorg-server minimal" >> /etc/portage/package.use

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support

[Rafael Fernández López]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:12:18PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
> On Monday 11 September 2006 16:23, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
> > > If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile
> > > xorg-server with USE="minimal". Then gnome can link to the libraries it
> > > needs but you don't need to install a complete X server.
> >
> > Yes, I wanted a remote X server. OK, I'll add "minimal" flag to my USE
> > variable.
> 
> Don't add it to your global USE flags !

I didn't pretend to. I mis-explained myself, I wanted to say <add
"minimal" flag to my USE variable in xorg-x11>. That's
/usr/portage/package.use. Thanks for the warning anyway. "minimal" USE
flag enabled globally and a "emerge -vuDN world" could be
desastrous. xDD.

Thank you,
Rafael Fernández López.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging gnome-light without X support

[Jeff Rollin]

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On 12/09/06, Rafael Fernández López <info@maestroprogramador.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:12:18PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
> > On Monday 11 September 2006 16:23, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:26:59PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote:
> > > > If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile
> > > > xorg-server with USE="minimal". Then gnome can link to the libraries
> it
> > > > needs but you don't need to install a complete X server.
> > >
> > > Yes, I wanted a remote X server. OK, I'll add "minimal" flag to my USE
> > > variable.
> >
> > Don't add it to your global USE flags !
>
> I didn't pretend to. I mis-explained myself, I wanted to say <add
> "minimal" flag to my USE variable in xorg-x11>. That's
> /usr/portage/package.use. Thanks for the warning anyway. "minimal" USE
> flag enabled globally and a "emerge -vuDN world" could be
> desastrous. xDD.


Just to stop another potential misunderstanding: "pretender" in Spanish =
"to aim to" in English. "pretend" in English is "fingir" in Spanish!

Jeff Rollin

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