Dear List,
I'm trying to install Gentoo on a headless machine. I want programs to
use the X libraries, so that I can SSH in from another machine and use X
over TCP, but I'm not too fond of installing the entire X package
(especially the X server) on it, since it won't ever be used.
However, I just tried to install a couple of program linking against GTK
(such avahi), and GTK, for some reason, tries to pull in lots of stuff
that I don't really want (among others, the X server). Looking in the
GTK ebuild, I found this:
RDEPEND="|| ( (
x11-libs/libXrender
x11-libs/libX11
x11-libs/libXi
x11-libs/libXt
x11-libs/libXext
x11-libs/libXcursor
x11-libs/libXrandr
x11-libs/libXfixes
xinerama? ( x11-libs/libXinerama ) )
virtual/x11 )
>=dev-libs/glib-2.10.1
>=x11-libs/pango-1.9
>=dev-libs/atk-1.10.1
>=x11-libs/cairo-0.9.2
media-libs/fontconfig
x11-misc/shared-mime-info
>=media-libs/libpng-1.2.1
jpeg? ( >=media-libs/jpeg-6b-r2 )
tiff? ( >=media-libs/tiff-3.5.7 )"
DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
sys-devel/autoconf
>=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.9
=sys-devel/automake-1.7*
|| ( (
x11-proto/xextproto
x11-proto/xproto
x11-proto/inputproto
x11-proto/xineramaproto )
virtual/x11 )
doc? (
>=dev-util/gtk-doc-1.4
~app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2 )"
I even emerged all those X11 dependencies myself, but even then, it
wants to emerge xorg-server. The first few lines of the output of
"emerge -tvp gtk+" look like this:
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.19 USE="X jpeg -debug -doc -tiff
-xinerama" 12,015 kB
[ebuild N ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.17-r2 558 kB
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.26 USE="ipv6 python readline
-debug -doc -test" 3,338 kB
[ebuild N ] dev-util/intltool-0.35.0 126 kB
[ebuild N ] x11-libs/pango-1.12.3 USE="-debug -doc" 1,197 kB
[ebuild N ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 USE="dri ipv6 -debug
-minimal -xprint" 8,716 kB
I'm not an expert with portage, but the fact that xorg-server is
indented one space from gtk+ means that gtk+ depends on it directly,
doesn't it? If so, whence does that dependency come from (it's obviously
not on the DEPEND or RDEPEND variables)?
Please help me -- what should I do to make gtk+ only pull in the minimal
amount of deps?
Thanks for your time!
Fredrik Tolf
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