On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:53:47 +0800 Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| I'm trying to build a server which is supposed to be head-less. How
| come when I try to emerge apache, it pulls xorg-x11?? 

Fix your USE flags. 

| And what's virtual/x11??

Rather than DEPENDing explicitly upon certain packages, we can use
virtuals. A virtual is a pseudopackage which is PROVIDEd by several
other real packages -- virtual/x11 is PROVIDEd by xorg-x11, xfree and
a few more obscure packages, for example. Another common one is the jdk
virtual, which is PROVIDEd by various different java things.

Mostly it's so that we don't have to have thousands of DEPEND="||
( x11-base/xfree x11-base/xorg-x11 x11-base/kdrive )" lines...

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