thanx a lot guys, all that info really helped

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:08:35 +0100
Pawel J Maczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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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