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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:41:26
Message-Id: 7573e9640611182336l672dd132p1aa2bf7838dbfe6f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked? by "Vladimir G. Ivanovic"
1 On 11/18/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > I assume that this means gnome-libs-1.4.2 is going to be removed in one
3 > month. but lots of packages directly depend on gnome-libs:
4
5 Yes, all old gnome and gnome-dependant things are going away as they
6 are unmaintained.
7
8 > # equery depends gnome-base/gnome-libs
9
10 equery depends is (nearly) useless.
11
12 > [ Searching for packages depending on gnome-base/gnome-libs... ]
13 > x11-misc/gtkdiff-1.8.0-r2
14
15 This hasn't seen an update in 5 years. Are you actually using this?
16 If so, what does "ldd `which gtkdiff`" report? It might be a mistake
17 and might actually depend on gtk2. But given it's age, I sort of
18 doubt this. If it does depend on gtk1, well, there are several other
19 graphical diff utilities in portage. "emerge --searchdesc" or "eix
20 -S" are your friends here.
21
22 > gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4
23 > gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37
24 > gnome-base/libglade-0.17-r6
25 > media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5
26
27 Old gnome stuff...do you actually use these, and if so, why haven't
28 you upgraded to the current version of gnome?
29
30 > app-misc/gfontview-0.5.0-r6
31
32 Just recompile this without the gnome USE flag. From
33 /usr/portage/app-misc/gfontview/ChangeLog:
34
35 17 Nov 2006; Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@g.o>
36 gfontview-0.5.0-r6.ebuild:
37 Dropping gnome useflag for gnome-1.x removal
38
39 > gnome-extra/guppi-0.40.3-r3
40
41 Lots of other plotting packages in portage.
42
43 > dev-perl/gtk-perl-glade-0.7008-r1
44 > dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7009-r2
45
46 Do you actually use these, or are they installed as some other
47 dependancy? Anyway, gtk2-perl and gtk2-gladexml exist for gtk2
48 applications.
49
50 > dev-db/unixODBC-2.2.11-r1
51
52 This can just be remerged as well:
53
54 17 Nov 2006; Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@g.o> unixODBC-2.2.6.ebuild,
55 unixODBC-2.2.6-r1.ebuild, unixODBC-2.2.8.ebuild, unixODBC-2.2.11.ebuild,
56 unixODBC-2.2.11-r1.ebuild:
57 Dropping gnome useflag for gnome-1.x removal
58
59 Same response as gtkdiff. Do you actually use them? If not, why do you care?
60
61 -Richard
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked? Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked? Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>
Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 masked? "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>