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weasel
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 Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 4:20 am Post subject: Regarding the suggested upgrade to portage 1.9.9 |
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Just a quick question for anyone that might know...
When I `emerge --pretend portage`, I see the xfree package is listed as a dependancy. Any reason why, and is this absolutely necessary? I am running gentoo in a server environment and have no need for X, thus I would like to keep it off my system if possible. Thanks.
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 6:41 am Post subject: |
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Read the USE manual on the gentoo.org page but I don't mind giving you and answer, edit the following file to use only what you want:
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nano /etc/make.profile/use.defaults
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Jyrinx
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 8:34 am Post subject: |
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Wait, I thought you weren't supposed to edit that file ... don't the docs say to add "-X" or some such to the USE line in /etc/make.conf?
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bmoyles
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 3:04 pm Post subject: Re: Regarding the suggested upgrade to portage 1.9.9 |
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| weasel wrote: | Just a quick question for anyone that might know...
When I `emerge --pretend portage`, I see the xfree package is listed as a dependancy. Any reason why, and is this absolutely necessary? I am running gentoo in a server environment and have no need for X, thus I would like to keep it off my system if possible. Thanks.
- W e a s e l |
I had the same problem--in /etc/make.conf,uncomment out the use line
and add -X and -tcltk
New portage requires newest python which tries to compile in tkinter support which triggers tk which triggers X  |
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arkane
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: Regarding the suggested upgrade to portage 1.9.9 |
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| bmoyles wrote: |
I had the same problem--in /etc/make.conf,uncomment out the use line
and add -X and -tcltk
New portage requires newest python which tries to compile in tkinter support which triggers tk which triggers X |
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2002 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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wow, awesome. Thanks for the great explanation bmoyles.
Cheers to everyone else who chimed in to my rescue as well. 
Thanks again,
- W e a s e l |
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