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From: Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=desktop-file request
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:00:19
Message-Id: 568D6423.4040405@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] USE=desktop-file request by tot-to
1 Unfortunately i doubt that we could help with that. I did not look into
2 every software package from your list, but many of those packages did
3 not have compile time switch for (not)using desktop-file-utils.
4
5 If you are still needed to clean up files, that cause no harm to your
6 system - i can only suggest you to mask /usr/share/applications via
7 INSTALL_MASK(to prevent these desktop files from installing at all)
8
9 06.01.2016 19:23, tot-to пишет:
10 > I'm a user of a KISS wm, which does not provide Windows™-like menus,
11 > desktop icons, etc. GUI software is called just by typing the binary
12 > name in PATH, just like any other software. For me the desktop-files are
13 > some kind of useless junk.
14 >
15 > Recently a lot of software were made harddep on
16 > dev-util/desktop-file-utils, i.e. from now on there are not only junk
17 > text files, but also a junk software required without any reason. I've
18 > added it to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided and everything
19 > compiles and works just fine. It means that in reality there is no real
20 > need in this software.
21 >
22 > Please make these dependencies optional.
23 >
24 > Reproducible: Always
25 >
26 > Steps to Reproduce:
27 > 1. echo dev-util/desktop-file-utils-0.22
28 >>> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
29 > 2. emerge -C dev-util/desktop-file-utils
30 > 3. emerge -1 `equery d dev-util/desktop-file-utils | awk '{print $1}' |
31 > sed s/^/=/g`
32 >
33 > Actual Results:
34 > No crashes or any kind of problems
35 >
36 > Expected Results:
37 > Build crash due to lack of hard dependency
38 >
39 > To be more specific, here is all the software on my system, that
40 > depends on dev-util/desktop-file-utils, but compiles and works just
41 > fine without it: $ equery d dev-util/desktop-file-utils
42 > * These packages depend on dev-util/desktop-file-utils:
43 > app-office/dia-0.97.3 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
44 > app-text/evince-2.32.0-r4 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
45 > app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
46 > dev-cpp/atkmm-2.24.1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
47 > dev-cpp/cairomm-1.12.0-r1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
48 > dev-cpp/glibmm-2.46.1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
49 > dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.4-r3 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
50 > dev-cpp/pangomm-2.38.1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
51 > dev-libs/atk-2.18.0 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
52 > dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.14 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
53 > dev-libs/libcroco-0.6.9 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
54 > dev-libs/libsigc++-2.6.2 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
55 > dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r55 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
56 > dev-python/pygtk-2.24.0-r4 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
57 > dev-util/gtk-update-icon-cache-3.16.7 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
58 > gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.18.1
59 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) gnome-base/libglade-2.6.4-r2
60 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) gnome-base/librsvg-2.40.11
61 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.34
62 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) media-libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.21-r2
63 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) sys-block/gparted-0.24.0
64 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.32.2
65 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.28-r1
66 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) x11-libs/pango-1.38.1
67 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.20.2-r2
68 > (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)
69 >
70
71
72 --
73 Best regards, Sergey Popov
74 Gentoo developer
75 Gentoo Desktop-effects project lead
76 Gentoo Quality Assurance project lead

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