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Gentoo Linux Reloaded | |
| Subject: | Almost a good distro | |
| Date: | 2002-10-12 05:51:14 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Although Daniel's article suggest that if you don't want something (ie gnome) that apps won't have support for it enabled, this is not 100% correct. I often have to edit the ebuild to get Gentoo *not* to install crap that I don't want. One example off the top of my head is the mplayer package, it always wants to install the qt libraries, which it doesn't need, and I *don't* want. I want a clean lean machine, not a whole bunch of libraries I don't need or use. |
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Almost a good distro
2002-10-15 13:00:24 anonymous2 [View]
Have you heard of the USE-Flags in make.conf?
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Almost a good distro
2003-07-23 21:36:26 anonymous2 [View]
Ummm I have mplayer installed, and, lo and behold, no qt. There are three things you can do it use flags, leave something out, put something in with a +, or put something in with a -. Leave it out, and it might install it anyway, put a minus and unless its a real dependency, it will leave it out.
In make.conf USE="-qt -kde -arts -qtmt..."
