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PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:56 pm    Post subject: [Solved] Grub pulls in pulseaudio, xorg, nvidia-drivers Reply with quote

During new install Grub pulls-in: alsa, pulseaudio, xorg, nvidia-drivers, and tons of other things from media-libs/* like xvid, x264, dav1d, flac, to name a few, why is that? Why it needs xorg, it's not a graphical application, and sound, and nvidia??? Here is what was in the make.conf of that (in the end ditched) install:
Code:
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more detailed example.
COMMON_FLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"

MAKEOPTS="-j10 -l10"
PORTAGE_NICENESS="1"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=10 --load-average=10 --with-bdeps=y --complete-graph=y"
FEATURES="news unmerge-orphans parallel-fetch parallel-install"

VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"      
GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc"      
INPUT_DEVICES="libinput keyboard mouse wacom"
MICROCODE_SIGNATURES="-s 0x000206c2"

# NOTE: This stage was built with the bindist Use flag enabled
PORTDIR="/var/db/repos/gentoo"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"              ## english language
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"        ## . instead of ,
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"       ## default terminal output
LC_TIME="en_DK.UTF-8"           ## YYYYMMDD
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"          ## A4 format, mm,cm
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"       ## rubles ₽
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"    ## metric

GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ https://gentoo-mirror.alexxy.name/"

USE="djvu ffmpeg pulseaudio"
USE="${USE} -accessibility -aqua -bindist -bluetooth -branding -cdda -cddb -cdr -consolekit -doc -dvb -dvd -dvdr -flickr -ftp -geoclue -geoip -geolocation -gnome -gnome-keyring -googledrive -gps -handbook -ios -ipod -kde -kwallet -lastfm -libav -libnotify -mysql -networkmanager -notification -notify -plasma -python_targets_python2_7 -samba -sndfile -startup-notification -systemd -wayland -xscreensaver -zeroconf"

CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"

ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE"   
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"   

For Grub itself there were two local useflags "mount" and "device-mapper".


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can you post emerge output adding -t option?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most likely, grub pulled in some utility that has optional sound or GUI support. That optional support was enabled, which in turn pulled in pulseaudio or Xorg. Xorg then pulled in nVidia drivers. Grub itself doesn't need pulseaudio, Xorg, or nVidia drivers, but indirectly pulled in something that did.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You may want to disable the USE flags 'fonts', 'themes' and 'truetype' for sys-boot/grub.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In case of nvidia-drivers, it defaults to USE="X gtk3 tools" regardless of profile to build nvidia-settings. It's optional but it'll be pulling a lot of X and GUI-related stuff as-is.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

/etc/portage/package.use
Code:
sys-boot/grub -sdl

I keep saying to myself that I should file a bug about this, and then end up not doing it :P
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GDH-gentoo, thank you.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GDH-gentoo wrote:
/etc/portage/package.use
Code:
sys-boot/grub -sdl

As of today, this should be no longer needed. Hopefully new Gentoo users that happened to choose a desktop profile will no longer have to wonder why Portage is building Mesa and LLVM if they only wanted a bootloader :)
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