On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:12, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > gimp doesn't require the gtk use flag globally. The only > thing it needs to be compiled with the gtk use flag is > app-text/poppler-bindings. The only packages that I have > compiled with gtk are app-text/poppler-bindings, > app-editors/gvim and net-analyzer/wireshark.
That's good info, thanks > > Then manually unmerged a ton of gnome packages, > > intending to finish up with 'emerge --depclean' > > and 'revdep-rebuild' to fix the mistakes I'd made. > > An easier approach here might be to just edit > /var/lib/portage/world manually and remove the gnome etc. > apps that you are no longer interested in and let emerge > --depclean -va do it's job... You're right, this would have been much easier, I'll keep it in mind for next time (if there is a next time!) > > Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull > > in half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do > > not understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf > > and gnome-panel. > > Add "-eds" to your use flags. openoffice doesn't wan't a > single gnome app on my computer so if it still wants some it > because of some use flag... Yeah, like I said to Etaoin, I'd stupidly parsed that as 'esd'... alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
