I don't run arts and things seem to work but as someone else pointed out skype needs artsd. I have -arts in my make.conf.
As for all those packages the -D makes it also do dependencies. On Saturday 31 December 2005 15:27, Abhay Kedia wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently running a "KDE 3.5" system with "arts" in /etc/make.conf but > now experiencing serious problems with it. In my quest to remove arts I > tried to do a "USE=-arts emerge -upDNv world" and found that emerge wants > to recompile 134 packages!!! I am a bit sceptical in letting emerge take > such a big step so I wanted to take advice from people with first hand > experiences on running KDE without arts (if any). What all problems should > I expect by putting a -arts in /etc/make.conf? I tried searching on Google > and Gentoo Forums but could not find anything conclusive. > > Also, I like to use JuK as my audio player and use Skype extensively. Will > disabling arts trouble me? Is it a must to run a sound server? Here I would > like to mention that I am using an on-board sound card (Intel HDA) which > does not have hardware mixing but iirc ALSA's dmix has taken over the > software mixing stuff now. So do I need a sound server AT ALL? If yes then > will running JACK suffice? I have been reading a lot about JACK lately but > don't know how it is faring on single user desktop systems. > > I will be highly thankful for any insights. > TIA > > Regards, > Abhay -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
