Bug 2691

Summary:	Midnight Commander Dependancies
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Paul Sadauskas <paulsadauskas>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul Sadauskas 2002-05-13 03:33:19 UTC

The portage system lists MC as having xfree as a dependancy, however, it is possible to compile MC 
as a console based file-explorer and editor without X.
I just downloaded the source 
independently of the ebuild, and compiled it myself, without the large xfree package 
installed. Im not familiar with it, but I think MC is also a Gnome-based file-explorer, which is 
where this dependance came from.

If i try to compile the mc ebuild and ignore the dependancy, 
i get an error "libSM.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
by 
downloading and installing mc on my own, it works just fine.

Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-13 05:53:26 UTC

taken from the mc ebuild:
 X? ( virtual/x11 )"
 use X && myconf="${myconf} --with-tm-x-support"
 use X || myconf="${myconf} --without-tm-x-support"


so just:
export USE="-X" 
emerge gnome-extra/mc