On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
> Gee, thanks for such a fast reply.
> 
> Now, I have soe more questions: can I somehow delete the downloaded tarballs (or to 
> put in a nother way - is it a good idea to do this, or are they needed for further 
> rsync upgrades?)? 

You can safely delete them.

> Also, lets say that i installed mplayer manually (eg. ./configure make make 
> install). Is there some way to tell portage (emerge) that mplayer is installed? (i 
> did the same with SDL* - because of dependency hell.
> 
> Speaking of dependencies does the USE variable affect the dependencies of packages? 
> For instance - i wanted to emerge mplayer and portage said i needen like 20 other 
> packages - including the kde arts server - and i don't even have kde installed, and 
> my sound system is pure alsa 1.0.1 (so that's why i installed it manually)

USE="-arts" sudo emerge -pv mplayer
see what happens...
and if you don't want to use arts, try adding "-arts" to your USE definition in 
/etc/make.conf

> Now for the last question  - what do i need to edit to "reduce" the dependencies (if 
> it is possible)?

vi :) 

Pawel

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