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On 09/12/2017 14:04, Taiidan@×××.com wrote: |
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> On 12/09/2017 05:45 AM, Mick wrote: |
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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 |
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>>>> 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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>>> 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 |
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>> being (a |
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>> little) paranoid about Poettering's fingers getting anywhere near my |
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>> systems. |
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>> :-p |
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>> |
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> For now, only a few text files - tomorrow - many more. |
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> You give poettering an inch he will take hundred miles. |
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Why are you laying this at Poettering's door? |
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To the best of my knowledge, he is not behind udisks{,2} or |
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gnome-common, so why include him here? |
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I'm all in favour of Lennart-bashing, but let's keep the bashing to what |
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he's responsible for. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |