On Wednesday 17 September 2003 13:53, Owen Gunden wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:36:11PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > Do an emerge -ep world and look for any of those packages shortly after
> > gpm is listed. If you don't find anything, then I haven't got a clue. If
> > you do, then it's just figuring out why the package is pulling it in.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> I think I've found the culprit.  Inside
> /usr/portage/net-www/links/links-2.1_pre9.ebuild, inside DEPEND:
>
>     fbcon? ( >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.1 sys-libs/gpm )
>
> So, odd though it may seem, if you have fbcon turned on (which I do),
> you're required to have gpm for links.  Does this make sense?  If not, I'll
> be filing a bug.

Well, I haven't used links before but... Can links be used with framebuffer 
and navigated successfully with keyboard? If so then gpm shouldn't be a 
requirement. If not then gpm should be there.

Regards,
Jason

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