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mathieu
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 Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 3:32 pm Post subject: questions about dependencies/installing packages |
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Hello,
I'm just new to gentoo and I ran into two problems I don't know how to fix:
1. When I want to install kdegraphics, it wants to install sane-backends. While sane-backends wants to install all kinds of docbook-(xml/sgml/dsssl) packages. However, I don't have a scanner, so what do I need sane-backends (and the rest) for? Can I install kdegraphics without sane-backends, if so; how? (I always like my installation as small as possible, and these packages seems useless to me, that's why.)
2. I use lilo for booting. (Because I have an onboard "hardware" raid0 controller and lilo runs fine with it). So I don't wan't grub. However every time I do a "emerge rsync" followed by a "emerge -up world" it wants to install grub. I figured out it's because of /etc/make.profile/packages, and it gets rewritten every time I do a rsync, so changing grub into lilo doesn't work. Can I change this behaviour perminently?
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pjp
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Not sure about 1.
2. I think adding -grub to the USE variable in /etc/make.conf should do the trick.
Check the Gentoo Guide to USE flags for more info.
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OK, that may not be true... I didn't see grub mentioned in the USE doc page.
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klieber
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| Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: questions about dependencies/installing packages |
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| mathieu wrote: | | 1. When I want to install kdegraphics, it wants to install sane-backends. While sane-backends wants to install all kinds of docbook-(xml/sgml/dsssl) packages. However, I don't have a scanner, so what do I need sane-backends (and the rest) for? Can I install kdegraphics without sane-backends, if so; how? (I always like my installation as small as possible, and these packages seems useless to me, that's why.) |
Gentoo definitely needs some more work on either a) more granular USE variables or b) more granular package control. Right now, the only way I know of to override dependencies is to manually edit the ebuild. (which will then get overwritten the next time you rsync.) You can also try masking sane-backends in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but that may simply cause the kdegraphics ebuild to fail because it can't satisfy dependencies. Not sure.
| mathieu wrote: | | 2. I use lilo for booting. (Because I have an onboard "hardware" raid0 controller and lilo runs fine with it). So I don't wan't grub. However every time I do a "emerge rsync" followed by a "emerge -up world" it wants to install grub. I figured out it's because of /etc/make.profile/packages, and it gets rewritten every time I do a rsync, so changing grub into lilo doesn't work. Can I change this behaviour perminently? |
Easiest method: mask grub in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask. Second-easiest method: /etc/make.profile is really a symlink to /usr/portage/profiles/<your profile>. This is why it gets overwritten at every rsync. To change this behavior, remove the symlink and copy all the files over to /etc/make.profile so it becomes an actual directory. This can cause other problems, however, since your profile won't be getting updated any more, so you'll want to keep a careful eye on the diff between /etc/make.profile and /usr/portage/profiles/<your profile>
--kurt
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mathieu
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| Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2002 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: questions about dependencies/installing packages |
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> Gentoo definitely needs some more work on either a) more granular USE
> variables or b) more granular package control.
I agree, I guess I have to wait for things to get better.
For now I use 'emerge -i sys-apps/grub-0.90-r7' It works until a higher version is unmasked. I'll try it for sane-backends later.
USE doesn't work and unmasking gets overwritten every rsync, so 'injecting' is the best option for me for now, I think.
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