From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F47013877A for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 22:09:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82643E0886; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 22:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B26FE0841 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 22:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B7A2EA394 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:09:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4i9PE0KeidVS for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:08:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-23-91-167-247.dyn.295.ca [23.91.167.247]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id DD7242EA4FD for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:08:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:08:55 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:08:55 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling Message-ID: <20140802220855.GA1738@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20140730160224.29830c66@digimed.co.uk> <20140801031619.GA28433@waltdnes.org> <20140801162659.GB982@ca.inter.net> <10994267.gbXn92PePm@andromeda> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <10994267.gbXn92PePm@andromeda> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: 4596ec4a-9582-4247-9aa9-9b4ab00ba98d X-Archives-Hash: d65833a9b3da288b3a6d88f1dcb05e09 140802 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, August 01, 2014 12:26:59 PM Philip Webb wrote: >> Not quite (smile) ! -- I ran into this & sent bugs to Gentoo + KDE ; >> the outcome was that I discovered that Phonon doesn't in fact demand >> that you install the actual sound software : >> it works to do 'USE="gstreamer" --nodeps emerge phonon' >> & Kdelibs then compiles successfully as well. >> If you compile KDE outside Portage, there's a "nosound" flag, >> but the Gentoo devs have implemented that to require >'USE=", >> perhaps knowing that it cb happily ignored via '--nodeps'. >> Just don't expect this to be documented anywere (grimace). > Do you still have the bug numbers for this? Gentoo 265864 , KDE 190601 ; also see Gentoo 454330 re Firefox. > I have a few machines without any sound support. If I can remove > the entire sound system from it, it would save time during the updates. I have sound disabled in the kernel & no sound pkgs installed ; I have had to install Phonon, but nothing to work with it. I use several KDE apps, but run my desktop with Fluxbox. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca