Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2009-04-10, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is something broken in the xfce ebuilds? emerge keeps wanting
>>> to install xscreensaver even though I've got -xscreensaver in my
>>> USE variable in make.conf. Everytime I update, xscreensaver
>>> gets reinstalled, and I have to manually "emerge -C" it:
>>>
>>> # emerge -auvtND world
>>>
>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> [nomerge ] xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.3 USE="alsa cups oss -minimal
>>> -xscreensaver"
>>> [nomerge ] xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.4.3 USE="dbus -debug -gnome"
>>> [nomerge ] xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.4.3 USE="dbus lock -debug"
>>> [ebuild N ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.07 USE="jpeg opengl pam
>>> -new-login -suid -xinerama" 0 kB
>>>
>> It is because of the "lock" USE flag on xfce-utils. I think it
>> uses xscreensaver for the screen-locking function.
>>
>
> I see. An unpleasant side-effect is that the screensaver
> function keeps kicking in. I guess I'll remove the "lock" flag
> from xfce-utils. Oddly, I have the "lock" flag for xfce-utils
> on another similar system, and emerge doesn't think it needs
> xscreensaver on that system. Perhpas because I have xlockmore
> installed on that system?
>
>
If you don't want a specific package, echo 'x11-misc/xscreensaver' >>
/etc/portage/package.mask
In this case, the dependency is:
lock? ( || ( x11-misc/xscreensaver
gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver
x11-misc/xlockmore ) )"
so either gnome-screensaver or xlockmore will be pulled in to compensate.
Nick
