[buug] Gentoo, Bluecurve and Linux too!

Nick Moffitt nick at zork.net
Fri Oct 18 17:46:43 PDT 2002


begin  Ian Zimmerman  quotation:
> johnd> The point is the same...why do you compile by hand?
> 
> To fix bugs, and things that packagers see as features but are really
> bugs (like excessive dependencies, which for me means any dependencies
> on either Gnome or KDE).

	For those particular examples, Gentoo uses a "USE" variable in
its configs.  Any optional dependencies are listed there (things like
ghostscript, gnome, kde, gtk, qt, etc etc).

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A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?



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