It is confusing. As I understand it if an ebuild needs things (such as gnome) it will compile with it anyway - despite what the USE variable says. The USE variable comes into play when you're building things that don't necessarily need something but you want to have it enabled it when built anyway. USE is like adding --with-someoption when doing the configure step in a non-ebuild environment.

For example, if something has to have Gnome then it will be compiled with whatever parts of Gnome it needs no matter what USE has in it. However, if an app has an option to be built with Gnome in case you want some features then the app will only be compiled with Gnome if the USE variable has it.

On 14 Mar 2003 13:07:11 +0000
Patrick Marquetecken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm using Fluxbox a window manager, does this mean that i kan place -kde
-gnome in /etc/make.conf.
but some programs need kde of gnome support?


This seems quit confusing.
If i install gnupg on my RH 7.3 from source, its just gnupg not anything
more.
In gentoo i should use emerge --nodeps or keep my /etc/make.conf clean.
But what about the dependencys ? You must agree that mysql has nothing
todo with gnupg, who knows every dedendecy of a program need.


Patrick


On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 10:57, jardous wrote:
Hello Patrick,

Friday, March 14, 2003, 10:55:13 AM, you wrote:

PM> Hi,

PM> I have installed yesterdag opengpg, but it installed a lot of other
PM> packages including mysql !!!
PM> It was the same with the install of Evolution, i got a lot of gnome
PM> (normal) but also mozilla.
PM> My windows manager is Fluxbox.



PM> I'm wondering does this behaviour have anything to do with the USE
PM> configuration in /etc/make.conf?


PM> TIA
PM> Patrick


yes if you want your application has disabled mysql (or another else) remove mysql
(and other) from your USE variable.


it is 'exact' depend on USE!

you should emerge application
# emerge --nodeps app // do not install dependency packages
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