Walter Dnes wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:43:05AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote
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>>And one more question: Why does emerge wvdial insist on installing all
>>this X stuff? More than 90 Megs!  What does my serial port hardware
>>care if I can look at an xterm or not?
>>
>>I tried USE="-X" but it just ignored me :^(
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>  Sigh, a bunch of ex-Windows, X Window developers, who can't go to the
>bathroom without a pointey-clickey-touchie-feelie-oowey-gui.  I suggest
>that you "emerge pppconfig" instead.  That's what I use along with pon
>and poff.
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I have used that before too and it works well.  Wvdial gave me fits. 
Why in the world does a CL dialer need a GUI?

Me confused.  Back to cleaning house.  *_*

Dale
:-)
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