On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:18, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I notice emerge ogg-vorbis insists on taking cups
> along with it.

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "ogg-vorbis".

eh?

> emerge info reveals cups flag _is_ 
> being used. But why use it then? What does printing
> have to do with playing ogg files. Why not go through
> the flags and install everything they point to? That
> would make as much sense as installing printer drivers
> when audio tools were called for. I've run emerge lots
> of times on the present OS and cups was never
> requested until now. Oh, and another thing: I don't
> have cups in my make.conf. Doesn't make.conf override
> the defaults?

No, it simply means that it won't be provided by make.conf.  There's other 
methods of obtaining USE flags, such as autouse, etc.  Try putting -cups in 
your make.conf file and then see what happens.

> -mw
>
> -mw
>
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