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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 04:34:03PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote |
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> YES it is entirely about a few megabytes you don't like. A few |
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> megabytes that OTHER people choose to put on THEIR computers to NO |
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> effect on yours. Even your sig betrays your bias. |
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I don't go around telling other people what religion / politics / |
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OS libs / etc they should use. I don't really care about soft defaults |
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since I run with USE='-*". But when unnecessary stuff is made into a |
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*HARD WIRED DEOENDANCY*, I draw the line. What I fear is that if there |
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is no yelling/screaming *NOW*, then stuff like systemd/pulseaudio/dbus |
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etc will eventually become mandatory. At one point I was one of only a |
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few people on this list *NOT* using HAL. BTW, those of you who have pam |
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and dbus masked out, like me, please raise your hand. |
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Speaking of dbus, my latest issue is with gnumeric spreadsheet, of all |
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things. It seems that they're switching from gconf to GSettings, which |
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apparently requires dbus. See |
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https://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/tools.html I ran into this |
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with the latest update of gnumeric. A couple of additional menu bars |
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show up, which pushes the bottom of graphs and spreadsheets off the |
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bottom of the screen. I can hide them each time I open the spreadsheet |
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but they reappear next time I open the sheet. And while I'm at it, why |
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does gnumeric-1.12.0-r1 now require ghostscript? I am seriously |
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considering switching to openoffice. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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