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Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 09:42 +0200, Jarry wrote: |
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>> # emerge --pretend lm_sensors |
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>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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>> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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>> [ebuild N ] sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0 |
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>> [ebuild N ] x11-misc/read-edid-1.4.2 |
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>> [ebuild N ] sys-apps/lm_sensors-2.10.7 USE="-sensord" |
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>> What is that x11-misc/read-edid good for? I do not want to pull |
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>> the whole x11 stuff with it, as this is a server with no graphics. |
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> |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/181029 |
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ChangeLog: |
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03 Jun 2007; Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> |
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lm_sensors-2.10.3.ebuild: Add missing depend. |
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decode-edid.pl needs parse-edid from x11-misc/read-edid |
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I agree with the original poster of this "resolved" bug: |
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pulling in x11-stuff to server just to be able to monitor |
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its temperatures is simply dangerous and risky... |
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>> Next, I want to use sensord for monitoring, so I modified |
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>> package.use and tried it once more: |
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>> # echo "sys-apps/lm_sensors sensord" >> /etc/portage/package.use |
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>> # emerge --pretend lm_sensors |
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>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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>> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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>> |
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>> emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy |
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>> ">=x11-libs/cairo-1.4.6[svg]". |
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>> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: |
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>> - x11-libs/cairo-1.8.6-r1 (Change USE: +svg) |
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>> (dependency required by "net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.3.8" [ebuild]) |
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>> (dependency required by "sys-apps/lm_sensors-2.10.7" [ebuild]) |
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>> (dependency required by "lm_sensors" [argument]) |
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>> Now I do not understand it at all. Why rrdtool? All I want |
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>> to use sensord for is to have some status messages recorded |
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>> to syslog. Why should I install that x11-libs/cairo graphics |
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>> library and rrdtool stuff??? |
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> Likely sensord does a lot more than recording to syslog. |
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man sensord: |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Sensord is a daemon that can be used to periodically log |
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sensor readings from hardware health-monitoring chips to |
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syslog(3) ***OR*** a round-robin database (RRD) and to alert |
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when a sensor alarm is signalled; for example, if a fan fails, |
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a temperature limit is exceeded, etc. |
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You see that big fat ***OR*** there? syslog or RRD. And I think |
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even gentoo-user should have the right to choose what he wants |
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to do with those sensor-readings. Definitelly I'm against any |
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x11-libs on my server, be it x11-misc/read-edid or x11-libs/cairo. |
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BTW, sensord can write data to round-robin database even if no |
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rrd-tool is installed. There's no need to put net-analyzer/rrdtool |
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as a dependency... |
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Jarry |
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