[snip] > Replying to my own message: when I tried this out, because I > had emerged -up > world recently, I had to use the --deep parameter to get any > output. And > WHAT a long list it was, too - my USE flags have definitely > changed since I > had the system installed, and now it wanted to install Xfree. Why..? > > I tracked it down to GhostScript. > Check this out:
[snip] > Can anyone explain this, please..? I would have expected > `USE=-cups emerge > ghostscript` not to install CUPS at all. [snip] Are you sure it's ghostscript? I get the expected behaviour: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .../portage/app-text/ghostscript> emerge -pv ./ghostscript-7.05.6.ebuild These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] dev-util/intltool-0.25 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10-r10 +nls [ebuild N ] net-ftp/curl-7.10.5-r1 +ssl -ipv6 -ldap [ebuild N ] net-print/foomatic-2.0.0 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Text-Balanced-1.95 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Parse-RecDescent-1.94 [ebuild N ] media-libs/audiofile-0.2.3-r1 [ebuild N ] media-sound/esound-0.2.29 +tcpd -alsa [ebuild N ] gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.17 +nls [ebuild N ] media-libs/giflib-4.1.0-r3 -X +gif [ebuild N ] media-libs/imlib-1.9.14-r1 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 -doc +nls -kde [ebuild N ] media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.21.0 -doc [ebuild N ] dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.4-r2 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7008-r9 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Data-Dumper-2.101 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Inline-0.44 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Filter-1.29 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/ExtUtils-F77-1.14-r1 [ebuild N ] dev-perl/PDL-2.4.0 -opengl [ebuild N ] media-libs/mpeg-lib-1.3.1-r1 [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-1.2.4 +python +nls -gnome -aalib +perl -doc +jpeg +png +tiff -doc [ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.5 +cups -doc +nls [ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript-7.05.6 [7.05.5] -X +cups -cjk [EMAIL PROTECTED] .../portage/app-text/ghostscript> USE=-cups emerge -pv ./ghostscript-7.05.6.ebuild These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] net-print/gimp-print-cups-4.3.5 +nls -gtk +readline [ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript-7.05.6 [7.05.5] -X -cups -cjk No cups installed, as appropriate. Cheers, A> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
