emerge want's to install X

GregerG · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 25

Hey!
I've had my server setup to run without X and it's been doing it so very beautifully for many years now,
so well that I've forgot alot about configuration and stuff

Anyhow - now doing an emerge update world it all of a sudden wants to install a whole bunch of X11 packages.
How do I see which package has the X dependencies and is there a simple way to block all X packages?

Cheers,
Greg.

fturco · Veteran Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 1181 Location: Italy

You can try with:

GregerG · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 25

rfelektronik etc # equery depends xorg-server
* These packages depend on xorg-server:
dev-libs/glib-2.32.4-r1 (!prefix ? x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb])

Why would glib depend on X all of a sudden, wonder if I'm missing a use switch...

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

Could you post the output of emerge --pretend --verbose --update --deep --newuse world ; emerge --info dev-libs/glib? It looks like someone added a dependency on X for testing purposes, since xvfb is a headless X server.

GregerG · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 25

I've only emerge updated system and a few select packages so the output was quite big,
uploaded it to http://pastebin.com/zqfcEJ9c

Thanks!
//Greg.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

If your system is that far out of date, I suggest you update what you can elsewhere, then worry about glib and the X packages.