emacs gtk emerging

xmrmx · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 18

I'm trying to get the gui version of emacs of my system which is primarily kde4.

I've set specific USE flags for emacs but everytime I emerge emacs I end up with the console only version (i.e. emacs and emacs -nw are the same).

It seems like my USE flags are correct. I must be missing something??

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

EzInKy · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1742 Location: Kentucky

You have "-X" in those use flags.
_________________
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Why not emerge app-editors/xemacs ?

There is also app-xemacs/xemacs-packages-all

have a look with eix:

xmrmx · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 18

I guess I misunderstood those flags. I thought GNU Emacs w/ gtk was different from XEmacs and that the X flag wasn't relevant if I used the gtk flag.

pilla · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:53 pm Post subject:

GNU Emacs w/ gtk is different from XEmacs. Still, the X flag is required AFAIK.
_________________
"I'm just very selective about the reality I choose to accept." -- Calvin

EzInKy · Veteran Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 1742 Location: Kentucky

Understandable. Strangely enough, xemacs can be built with -X also B-)
_________________
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.

xmrmx · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Posts: 18

Excellent. Thanks everyone. I have what I need now.

Having made the decision to switch from the popular distros (fedora, opensuse, mint, debian) to gentoo, I sense I'll be pestering the boards as I attempt to get my Sony Vaio notebook setup. It's been a few years since I used gentoo so I'm a bit rusty.

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

No problem. Well be here.

V-Li · Retired Dev Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 613

XEmacs is another Emacs variant and has nothing to do with X or what else. The original fork has been called Lucid Emacs and later changed to XEmacs because of *better* support of X. app-editors/emacs is the GNU Emacs under the supervision of the FSF. The USE flag dependencies for the widget sets (Gtk+, Athena etc.) only are used when USE=X is present to prevent unwanted dependencies (like disabling all widget USE flags separately).