On Monday 11 September 2006 12:31, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 11 September 2006 12:21, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > This may be a trivial question, but I'd like to know if it is
> > possible to emerge gnome-light with X="... -X gtk gtk2 gnome
> > ...".

No, it isn't.

> But even if you did get it to compile with -X, the concept
> doesn't make sense. The whole point of gnome (and gnome-light
> is just a minimal subset of that) is to display stuff on the
> screen and for that you require X, so leave it in the USE flags
> so portage can do the right thing.
>
> Why do you want to do such a thing anyway?

If you're planning to use a remote X server you, you should compile 
xorg-server with USE="minimal". Then gnome can link to the libraries it needs 
but you don't need to install a complete X server.

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