From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KM2vD-0000sx-6e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:40:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD423E0327; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.249]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89230E0327 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so2394029rvf.46 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:40:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ta9wKfKl+K7YgeyGjeIYTH74lpQCkksQxc9hm/nOUww=; b=WSiltxC44KzKP388dXFdYCN03ftaTE4hNdOPaidGOsWhKlZ+DFbOS6ifZ0AHk5tgpr viwI/8IrdwzEvS5ZBsIbPRJ0Y2ZwZq8zdtsBibHQNhIGHiGWKwUcF393kG3qptgksJm/ iUh/8++YMABcfORqXadknEv5CgrkcvrwaKDFc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=JfdbRwZyPW8P2vpLeXiRoqefq4DdhRiL6KEKtkf3Wf7DVLySSUP6IAACttaxQj39Rr +fFnPcQYPXAoISQHWwL0VPtDTtleRQVrd+7UlKE8CA915jGfc88MsPYAPPg2HNnW+uCS +XVq7MVmOEahn3e67pionFO64G2zvjxagDVOs= Received: by 10.141.18.12 with SMTP id v12mr257958rvi.183.1216914001018; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.79.17 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:40:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:40:00 -0400 From: "Dylan Garrett" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xfce4 with installed lprng. :-( In-Reply-To: <20080724094111.GA1307@muc.de> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080724094111.GA1307@muc.de> X-Archives-Salt: 1472abc9-9c13-48ef-8064-70da09125bbf X-Archives-Hash: f4d61011888fd87f9a5e5001513b3f0d On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, excellent people! > > Having got X11 installed and "working", I need a window manager. Why > not XFCE, as supplied on the installation disk? > > # emerge xfce didn't work - "Portage: Don't know what xfce is". > Scrabbled aroud /usr/portage, then # emerge xfce4 started working. > > Why the 4 do I have to type xfce4, not xfce? Anyhow, that's a minor > point. > > The major point was that portage refused to install xfce because it said > that > > [blocks B ] net-print/lprng (is blocking net-print/cups-1.3.7-r1) > [blocks B ] net-print/cups (is blocking net-print/lprng-3.8.28) > > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > * installed at the same time on the same system. > > . I.e., it wants to override my decision to use lprng as print program > and put in cups instead. This is a bit of a cheek! > > Why isn't xfce configured merely to install "some print daemon", rather > than specifically cups? For that matter, why must it install a print > daemon at all? Not every X user has a printer or wants to print. > > What can I do about this? I really don't want to have to install cups. > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > > Like Sebastian said. Just disable the cups useflag (add -cups to the USE section of your make.conf) and Xfce should no longer depend on cups.