From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FOpsH-0002pN-E5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:39:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2U5bAS4004717; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:37:10 GMT Received: from hetzner.email-server.info (new.email-server.info [213.133.109.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2U5WMEH014221 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:32:22 GMT Received: by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6136322BD6; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:32:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (mue-88-130-81-000.dsl.tropolys.de [88.130.81.0]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414DA22BD2 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:32:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <442B6D59.30308@mid.email-server.info> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:32:09 +0200 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060326) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in xorg when I don't use it... References: <200603300017.k2U0HVq1031986@robin.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200603300017.k2U0HVq1031986@robin.gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on hetzner.email-server.info X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.2 tests=BAYES_00=-2.599, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=failed version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Spammy: 0.985-3--0h-3s--0d--H*p:D*alexander.skwar.name, 0.948-659--280h-1131s--0d--NEW X-Spam-Auto: awl= learn=failed X-Spam-Pyzor: Reported 0 times. X-Spam-DCC: brand=wuwien results=hetzner.email-server.info 1290; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Check-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:32:22 +0200 X-Spam-Bayes: score=0.0000 summary=Tokens: new, 11; hammy, 149; neutral, 104; spammy, 2. new=266 seen=255 spammy=2 hammy=149 hammy tokens=0.000-+--D*gentoo.org, 0.000-+--sk:gentoo, 0.000-+--sk:gentoo-, 0.000-+--U*gentoo-user, 0.000-+--ebuild spammy tokens=0.985-3--H*p:D*alexander.skwar.name, 0.948-+--NEW X-Spam-RBL: [213.133.109.44] [10 new.email-server.info.] X-Spam-Languages: en X-Archives-Salt: 9d39ac25-419b-456d-8f6b-a55e49c6e705 X-Archives-Hash: 21e9204db35ec311fbf81776074a9689 Daevid Vincent wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Philip Webb [mailto:purslow@sympatico.ca] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:07 PM >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage trying to pull in >> xorg when I don't use it... >> >> 060329 Daevid Vincent wrote: >> > I have a VMWare that I use for LAMP development. >> > I have never put Xorg on it nor do I ever want X windows on it. >> > Recently, when I do an 'emerge -Davut world', I see this: >> -- snip -- >> > [ebuild U ] www-client/links-2.1_pre20 [2.1_pre19] -X >> -directfb -fbcon >> > +gpm -javascript +jpeg -livecd +png +sdl +ssl -svga +tiff >> -unicode 3,768 kB >> -- snip -- >> > [ebuild N ] x11-terms/xterm-207 -Xaw3d -doc -toolbar >> +truetype -unicode >> > 727 kB >> > What is trying to bring in all those NEW x11 packages? >> > How can I prevent this annoyance? >> >> It's clearer if you do 'emerge -etp links', which requires >> all the GUI stuff > > OMG! 'links' pulls in _92_ package dependencies?! That's silly. No, it's not silly. It's good. > What confuses me even more now, is that AFAIK, "links" is (according to the > man page) "lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser", so why then > all the x11 dependencies and such. Shouldn't this thing, by definition, just > work in console mode without all that extra crap? No, it shouldn't. It should work with all the flags that you set. > I "solved" this by adding this to /etc/portage/package.use: > > www-client/links -X -directfb -fbcon gpm -javascript -jpeg -livecd -png -sdl > ssl -svga -tiff -unicode > > But what seems silly to me is that why does this have jpeg, png, tiff > support if it's in console mode? No, that's not silly. > Will "links" actually SHOW an image? Yes, it will. > I've > NEVER seen it do that (on any other linux box, even with X support) Fine - so, what? Alexander Skwar -- "I have to convince you, or at least snow you ..." -- Prof. Romas Aleliunas, CS 435 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list