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xfree and xorg as dependencies

Sep 4, 2004, 4:13 PM

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The last time I emerged xfce4 without X (a week ago), xorg was
installed as a dependency but this time it wants to install xfree.
Why the switch?

I currently have xorg emerging, and I'm hoping xfce4 will no longer
require xfree when xorg is on the system. I could have found out for
sure if I knew how to get emerge to recalculate dependencies like
this:

emerge -p xorg RECALCULATE_NOW xfce4

Is there any way to do that?

Also, I tried to enable Xaw3d (I think that's it) for xterm for the
xorg emerge, but it then required xfree along with xorg!

- Grant

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Re: xfree and xorg as dependencies [ In reply to ]

gherald at gmail

Sep 5, 2004, 5:58 PM

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On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 16:13:24 -0700, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> The last time I emerged xfce4 without X (a week ago), xorg was
> installed as a dependency but this time it wants to install xfree.
> Why the switch?
>
> I currently have xorg emerging, and I'm hoping xfce4 will no longer
> require xfree when xorg is on the system. I could have found out for
> sure if I knew how to get emerge to recalculate dependencies like
> this:
>
> emerge -p xorg RECALCULATE_NOW xfce4
>
> Is there any way to do that?
>
> Also, I tried to enable Xaw3d (I think that's it) for xterm for the
> xorg emerge, but it then required xfree along with xorg!
>
> - Grant

If you are using xorg and come across packages that (even after an
emerge sync) seem to demand xfree for no particular reason, the
solution is to inject xfree and then emerge that package. If the
package works as expected, consider fileing a bug.

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Re: xfree and xorg as dependencies [ In reply to ]

crichey at gmail

Sep 5, 2004, 6:15 PM

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On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:58:03 -0500, Gherald <gherald@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you are using xorg and come across packages that (even after an
> emerge sync) seem to demand xfree for no particular reason, the
> solution is to inject xfree and then emerge that package. If the
> package works as expected, consider fileing a bug.
>

Makle that absolutely without exception check for and/or file a bug
report. There's no excuse for this behavior in ebuilds.

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