--- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:18:16 -0800 (PST)
> maxim wexler wrote:
> 
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > I notice emerge ogg-vorbis insists on taking cups
> > along with it. emerge info reveals cups flag _is_
> > being used. But why use it then? What does
> printing
> > have to do with playing ogg files. Why not go
> through
> > the flags and install everything they point to?
> That
> > would make as much sense as installing printer
> drivers
> > when audio tools were called for. I've run emerge
> lots
> > of times on the present OS and cups was never
> > requested until now. Oh, and another thing: I
> don't
> > have cups in my make.conf. Doesn't make.conf
> override
> > the defaults?
> 
> There doesn't appear to be a package named
> ogg-vorbis on my system, or
> in portage:

Sorry, meant vorbis-tools

> 
>
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=ogg-vorbis
> 
> So it makes your question a little difficult to
> answer.
> 
> However you can tarce dependencies by use of the
> --tree or -t switch for
> emerge:
> 
> emerge -pvt ogg-vorbis
> 
> might tell you what is dragging in cups. (well it
> would if there were
> such a package). Then you can read the ebuild of the
> package that is
> dependent on cups top find out why.
> 
> USE flags are inherited from a number of places, all
> cumulative, with
> make.conf only being your preferences. Your profile
> governs what is
> added before make.conf adds its bits.
> 
> > 
> > -mw
> > 
> > -mw
> > 
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