Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/17/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I noticed that many of them are dependencies of virtual/x11 so I added >> that to my world file, re-ran the --depclean and this time got only >> about half the recommendations. Was adding virtual/x11 to my world file >> the proper thing to do? Wonder why it wasn't there in the first place? > > Probably not. Prior to modular-X, any package that depended on > anything X related would depend on virtual/x11, which originally could > be provided by xfree86 or x.org, but now just x.org. > > As part of porting to modular-X, all (well, almost all) packages that > previously depended on virtual/x11 were updated to depend on _either_ > virtual/x11, or the specific modular-X package[s] that they really > needed. > > So the above depclean output means that none of those packages are in > your world file, and nothing in your world file depends directly or > indirectly on them, based on your current USE flags. Specifically, > nothing really depends on virtual/x11, because the dependancies are > satified by the various modular-X packages you have installed. > > So the proper thing to do here is probably add the specific apps that > you actually care about and use to world. > > -Richard Thats a little confusing because most of those are libraries and are dependencies only of virtual/x11.
Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
