Mark Knecht schreef: > On 5/14/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sat, 14 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >>>The first problem is that Mozilla is not in this system and it's not >>>in the world file. Why is emerge trying to bring it in? >> >>Add the -t flag to print the dependency tree. >> > > > Thanks. I'm surprised that the Gnome ebuid depends on Mozilla. I have > Firefox installed. I would have hoped that would be enough.
The gnome metapackage includes epiphany, which does depend on Mozilla. Evolution (also included) might depend on Mozilla as well. > > I'm looking at installing Gnome-light instead but I'm not clear if the > emerge -C gnome step will uninstall everything and cause me to have to > completely rebuild all parts of Gnome. No, it won't uninstall everything. In fact, it won't uninstall anything except the meta-build itself. It's kind of annoying, as I just did this myself, and still don't know how to clean my system of more GNOME cruft than the obvious (Epiphany, Mozilla, Evolution and Evolution-data-server). But in any case, I think that what uninstalling the metapackage does is frees the underlying packages, so you *can* uninstall them, without having your next emerge -u world try to drag Mozilla, Epiphany, et al back in (because the metapackage depends on them). Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
