On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 11:56 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > 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)?
> It's because it inherits the virtualx.eclass -- gtk+ requires an X > server (Xvfb) to build. What you can do is set USE="minimal -dmx -xorg > -xprint" in your package.use for xorg-server to minimize this. Also try > VIDEO_CARDS="" and INPUT_DEVICES="" in make.conf. > > However, this only works well on xorg-server-1.1, so you will also need > to add it to package.keywords. I see... how troublesome. Well, I guess there's no choice, but would anyone happen to know the reason why gtk+ requires Xvfb? Fredrik Tolf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
