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Tony Hoyle wrote: > I found Gentoo had similar problems (with different packages) unless you > modified the USE variable for each install, which was too much work for > me... eg. links, which is ideal for text mode, pulls in X11 if you have > it in your USE variable. I found with Gentoo the biggest problem is getting USE in /etc/make.conf right... after that, I've only had to tweak the USE for individual packages on only a handful of occassions. > I quite like debian.. it's just sometimes you have package maintainers > who do bizarre things (if unixodbc should be dependent on any GUI it'd > be QT since its admin interfaces uses it.. I really can't see why gnome > is needed - especially for the -dev package which shouldn't have any > dependencies at all..) Gentoo has/had similar problems... sometimes the USE settings are just totally screwed somewhere and a console mode app suddenly wants the whole of X11 installed. Normally such crazy things get fixed fairly quickly. >> For cvsnt, it looks like everything works when unixODBC 2.2.8 or better >> is installed (if you could test for that requirement as part of cvsnt's >> configure that might help others avoid trying to compile with a too-old >> unixODBC install). > > I'm not really sure how to... I don't think there's a version check > anywhere and the ODBC interface itself is pretty static. Is there > something specific that fails that I could check for? My guess would be to check for the version of libodbc that's installed. >> p.s. Hey.. we're now on Servalan! Right, spill the beans, when are the >> good-guys going to be used... Travis and Servalan were both baddies! > > There weren't many goodies... Avon was a baddie too (albeit a baddie on > 'our' side).. And isn't it funny how everybody preferred Avon to Blake... you never knew quite whose side he was on: hisown mainly :-) You do realise that you have now given me the ideal excuse to watch all the episodes to list all the goodies. > > Tony -- David Somers VoIP: FWD 622885 PGP Key = 7E613D4E Fingerprint = 53A0 D84B 7F90 F227 2EAB 4FD7 6278 E2A8 7E61 3D4E