so is +gtk required in the USE variable to get the GUI client?
and what about gkrellm. i have the 2.1.10 version installed, but a 'emerge -pv gkrellm' shows '[ebuild R ] app-admin/gkrellm-2.1.10 -gtk -gtk2 +nls'. do i need to change USE to '+gtk +gnome +kde +qt' to be able to really use packages in one environment that were written for the other? i guess that wouldn't be such a big deal, but that really makes me wonder about why there's a USE variable to begin with...
so, do i need to change '-gtk -gnome +kde +qt' to '+gtk +gnome +kde +qt' to get this stuff to work correctly.
gkrellm has a daemon mode that does not require an interface to be built on the machine in question. I'm not sure why xchat can be built without the UI. Just setting "gtk" into your USE will fix this, no need to add "gnome" as well.
I would think that this incident illustrates WHY there are use flags. Granted, not having the gkrellm ui built in your case is inconvenient, but it could make sense to someone who only needs the daemon on, say, a server, for example.
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