Linked by Bob Minvielle on Wed 17th Jul 2002 19:18 UTC
There have been many articles as of late about the so called "source" distributions of Linux. Articles about "rpm hell" and how to get out of it. While I have been using Red Rat since the first release (and do have some things for and against it) there is no distribution that will please all of the people all of the time. Then again, that is what makes an OS like Linux nice, in my opinion. Choices. Today, Gentoo Linux is my choice.
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Unfortunately, this is right, at least partially. VIM can depend on X. So, USE="-X". It can also depend on gtk+, which will install XFree. So, USE="-X -gtk". VIM does depend on portage. Portage depends on python. Python can depend on tcltk, wihch will install XFree. So, to install VIM without XFree:
USE="-X -gtk -tcltk" emerge vim
Nethack can depend on gnome or qt, so
USE="-X -qt -gnome" emerge nethack
Hopefully portage2 will have the capability to have dependant USE flags. Something like USE="noX" that will set all X and X toolkit flags to -.