Yann Garnier wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > Although I'm really satisfied with my gentoo laptop, there's is still > something I don't understand with emerge. > When I 'emerge -pvuD world' then portage "wants" to install many > things, here is an example of the output: > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies .. ...done! > [ebuild N ] media-sound/esound-0.2.34 +alsa +ipv6 +tcpd 310 kB > [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.10.0 -debug -doc 850 kB > [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-2.6.3 -accessibility -debug 382 kB > [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.10.0 -debug -doc 562 kB > [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.8.1 -debug -doc 997 kB > [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.2 -debug 360 kB > [ebuild N ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.10.0 -debug -doc +jpeg 1,613 kB > [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/yelp-2.6.5 -debug 638 kB > [ebuild N ] x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme-0.5 30 kB > [ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.10.0 -debug 2,835 kB > [ebuild N ] media-libs/imlib-1.9.14-r3 574 kB > [ebuild N ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.3 1,096 kB > [ebuild N ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.10.0 -accessibility -debug > 2,509 kB > > i precise that I don't use nor want to use Big desktop environnment > such as gnome or kde because of compile time > and most of all because Window Maker fits all my need... > > Did I miss something ??? > > Can someone help me ?
Either 'gnome' snuck into your USE flags, or some package that you already have installed suddenly gained a dependency on gnome (new version or something). Run 'emerge -uDpvt' to get an idea of which package is pulling in all those gnome deps. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list