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On Saturday, 9 December 2017 10:34:32 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 09/12/17 11:51, Mick wrote: |
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> > I've seen gnome-base/gnome-common pulled in on more than one systems, all |
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> > of> |
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> > which have USE="-gnome" set: |
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> > # emerge -uaNDvt world |
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> > |
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> > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: |
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> > [...] |
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> > Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> > [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1:3::gentoo |
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> > USE="autoconf-archive" 153 KiB |
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> > [...] |
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> > |
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> > All systems are on profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma |
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> > |
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> > Why is gnome-base/gnome-common needed? |
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> |
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> It's an extremely lightweight package. There seem to be some packages |
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> that need files from it. The package itself only installs these files: |
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> |
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> $ qlist gnome-common |
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> /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh |
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> /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-common.m4 |
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> /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-compiler-flags.m4 |
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> /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-code-coverage.m4 |
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> /usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1/ChangeLog.bz2 |
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> /usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1/README.bz2 |
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> |
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> So basically it only copies some small text files to /usr. It doesn't |
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> build anything. |
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Thank you all for detailed and clear replies. You'd forgive me for being (a |
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little) paranoid about Poettering's fingers getting anywhere near my systems. |
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:-p |
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-- |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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