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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags (-gnome&-gtk2) and XFCE questions
From:       Tom Wesley <tawesley () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-12-16 21:57:36
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On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 21:43, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Nick Fisher
> >
> >GNOME & KDE use flags
> >Ok... so there are gnome and kde USE flags. The descriptions aren't too
> >informative... things like 'adds support for gnome'. Now as I understand
> >it XFCE is quite gnome like... should I then use the -gnome flag when
> >compiling X apps to use in XFCE? Or is using that flag only going to be
> >populating some directory only gnome uses?
> 
> You want "-gnome" and "-kde", since you would never use those features. The
> "gnome" and "kde" add stuff like session management, which XFCE doesn't use.
> 

FYI, XFCE4 has session management that is masked in portage, but works
perfectly here...

-- 
Tom Wesley

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