On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:40:48PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:03:56PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Jon Kent wrote: > > > with Gentoo I do, I disable KDE support using the USE variable. Very > > > easy to do. > > > > And does this USE variable deal correctly with dependencies and realizing > > that this package may or may not require KDE? > > Remember, you have to build everything from source, so you already have all > of the runtime dependencies (and more) installed because you needed them in > order to build it.
That assumes that the runtime dependencies are a subset of the build dependencies and their recursive dependencies. Imagine a program that displays its output with gv: it doesn't need gv to build, but it needs it at runtime. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | After the game, the king and | | the pawn go in the same box. | | -- Italian proverb | \-Evil Overlord, Inc: planning your future today. http://www.eviloverlord.com-/
