>Well, these are X applications (and Amarok is a KDE application.) >Obviously they need X to work. USE flags are there to configure >*optional* dependencies and behaviors. For mplayer and Amarok, these >dependencies are not optional. > >As others mentioned, you should install a command line player. There >are a few. mpg123 is not really a media player though. You might want >to look at this: > >http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/04/several-powerful-console-music-players.html >
Wait ! I remember once when I used Federa , I also installed mplayer from source code . Mplayer afforded an option looked like --without-graphic , Then I could use mplayer under console and it didn't contact with graphical desktop. It seems that documentation about mplayer is needed .