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Thus spake Chris Gianelloni on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:52:48PM CST |
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> Actually, it should be in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc, and it |
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> affects 4 packages, which I tend to think is enough to warrant it being |
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> added as a global USE flag. |
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> > If I add 'hal' to my USE list, how much of gnome am I going to have to |
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> > rebuild to get this working? |
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> 3 or 4 packages. |
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OK, I'm not up on /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc but soon will be. |
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Looks like I can figure out which packages to rebuild from this file. |
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> > If gnome now depends on hal and dbus for detections, perhaps the relevant |
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> > gnome ebuilds should contain dependencies to these. I know nothing about |
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> > these packages, but that's nothing new. Gnome, Gentoo and other systems |
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> > move so fast that every couple of weeks I have to go back to school ;-) |
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> Well, they aren't "required" for Gnome to work, which is probably why |
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> they are enabled by USE flags. Again, I'm not a Gnome developer, so I |
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> am sure someone from the Gnome team would be able to tell you more |
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> accurately. |
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Gentoo could use an "advisory dependency" system much like Debian has |
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("package X suggests package Y"). |
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