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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:34:29
Message-Id: p0ge71$7je$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Is gnome becoming obligatory? by Mick
1 On 09/12/17 11:51, Mick wrote:
2 > I've seen gnome-base/gnome-common pulled in on more than one systems, all of
3 > which have USE="-gnome" set:
4 >
5 > # emerge -uaNDvt world
6 >
7 > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
8 > [...]
9 > Calculating dependencies... done!
10 > [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1:3::gentoo
11 > USE="autoconf-archive" 153 KiB
12 > [...]
13 >
14 > All systems are on profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma
15 >
16 > Why is gnome-base/gnome-common needed?
17
18 It's an extremely lightweight package. There seem to be some packages
19 that need files from it. The package itself only installs these files:
20
21 $ qlist gnome-common
22 /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
23 /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-common.m4
24 /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-compiler-flags.m4
25 /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-code-coverage.m4
26 /usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1/ChangeLog.bz2
27 /usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1/README.bz2
28
29 So basically it only copies some small text files to /usr. It doesn't
30 build anything.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory? Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>