Re: [gentoo-user] Pulseaudio now needs USE="gnome"?

[Marc Joliet]

On Saturday 10 December 2016 08:10:33 Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have set up USE="-gnome" in my make.conf, but I saw this cropping up at my
> latest emerge --update:
>
> [ebuild   R    ] media-sound/pulseaudio-9.0::gentoo  USE="X alsa alsa-plugin
> asyncns bluetooth caps dbus gdbm glib gnome* ipv6 orc qt4 ssl tcpd udev
> webrtc-aec -doc -equalizer -gtk -jack (-libressl) -libsamplerate -lirc -
> native-headset (-neon) -ofono-headset (-oss) -realtime (-selinux) -sox (-
> system-wide) -systemd {-test} -xen -zeroconf" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0
> KiB [snip...]
>
> Total: 127 packages (83 upgrades, 3 new, 41 reinstalls), Size of downloads:
> 268,203 KiB
>
> The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
>  (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
> # required by kde-plasma/plasma-pa-5.8.3::gentoo
> # required by kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.8.3::gentoo[pulseaudio]
> # required by kde-apps/kdebase-meta-16.04.3::gentoo
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
>
> >=media-sound/pulseaudio-9.0 gnome
>
> which is dragging in gconf:
>
> [ebuild  N     ] gnome-base/gconf-3.2.6-r4:2::gentoo  USE="introspection
> ldap (policykit) -debug" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 KiB
>
>
> I don't see gnome in REQUIRED_USE and since this is a relatively gnome-free
> PC I was wondering what's causing the above and if I can avoid gconf?
[...]

I, too, was annoyed about this, but see the following, in particular the bug 
referenced in both commits (using the gitweb interface is a good way of 
figuring out changes like this, I think):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0ffbd5cf3af3ea2fc4c568080c254b04b3e1334c
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5ba50d0df9b3431ff4c9178d6d7f86db56cb648f
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596426

HTH
-- 
Marc Joliet
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