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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:56:46
Message-Id: CAKpSnp+8BMx1Hcn1bkKztR8AnikfY3zaptixrzfmdL_0yEuwjg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory? by R0b0t1
1 On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:12 AM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 >> On Saturday, 9 December 2017 12:00:12 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote:
4 >>> On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>> > Thank you all for detailed and clear replies. You'd forgive me for
6 >>> > being (a little) paranoid about Poettering's fingers getting anywhere
7 >>> > near my systems.>
8 >>> > :-p
9 >>>
10 >>> Are you sure you need udisks? And policykit?
11 >>
12 >> I'm pretty sure Mick runs KDE, which requires both of those.
13 >>
14 >
15 > Eventually emerging @world will just pull in the entirety of the
16 > Gentoo package repository, and we won't have to worry about what is or
17 > isn't necessary.
18 >
19 Not that I would object much to have gnome-common if I needed it (I
20 don't), but it is a bit
21 shocking that installing kde stuff pulls gnome stuff. After all,
22 they're supposed to be alternative worldviews, er, desktop
23 environments. Maybe the relevant people should stop and think whether
24 unbridled complexity is a good idea?
25
26 (Of course, this is not a Gentoo-specific issue.)
27
28 Jorge

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory? Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>