mplayer ebuild dependancies seem excessive

jondkent · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 289 Location: London

Hiya,

OK, got Gentoo up and running nicely and went to install mplayer from the ebuild, so ran the usual emerge --pretend mplayer and was supprised to see qt, kde-env and arts required. I don't run KDE or use QT so I didn't want to install these and I have modified the USE flag to reflect this but this are still required by the ebuild.

I think that having QT and KDE required is over the top as these are not required to build mplayer. Does anyone know why these are required?

In the end I grab the code and built it myself and all works fine, just would have preferred to have done this via portage.

Cheers
Jon

Larde · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:43 am Post subject:

Are you sure you have -arts in your USE flags?
I just tried emerge -pe mplayer|grep -E "(kde|qt|arts)" and none of kde, qt or arts would be installed.

Yours,
Larde.
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rac · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:45 am Post subject:

How did you change the USE flags? If I set USE="-kde -qt -arts", then "emerge -pe mplayer" shows none of that stuff.
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jondkent · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 289 Location: London

Whoops, forgot to put -arts in my USE flag :oops:

Thanks

Jon