Re: [gentoo-user] Why does wordpress require xterm?

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 2/22/06, Lance Jacobs <lance@ljacobs.net> wrote:
> However, I already have
>
>     USE="-X -gtk -gnome -qt -kde -alsa -xpm -opengl userprofiles ..."
>

Oh also, not directly related to your question, but it sounds like you
might be better off using something like USE="-* userprofiles ...". 
The "-*" turns off all default flags (which can change when changing
profiles, or when installing certain packages), so that only the flags
you specifically want are on.  Then I would make heavy use of
package.use to turn on specific USE flags for specific packages,
rather than globally enabling them in make.conf.

This does take a bit more care to get right, but it can result in a
very lean system, with no surprises like the x11 dependancy you had
today.

But be really careful if you do convert to this, and don't merge
anything without examining the output of "emerge -DNuvp world", and
being happy with the changes it wants to make.  Switching from "pam"
to "-pam" has been reported to break systems, for example.  Once you
are happy, run the emerge for real.

-Richard

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