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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:30:16
Message-Id: 201312111629.44251.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base by Peter Humphrey
1 On Wednesday 11 Dec 2013 10:58:19 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 10 Dec 2013 23:49:06 Mick wrote:
3 > > I seem to have two packages from gnome:
4 > >
5 > > # emerge --depclean -v -a app-admin/system-config-printer-gnome
6 > >
7 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
8 > >
9 > > app-admin/system-config-printer-gnome-1.4.3 pulled in by:
10 > > kde-base/print-manager-4.10.5 requires
11 > > app-admin/system-config-printer-
12 > >
13 > > gnome
14 > >
15 > > # emerge --depclean -v -a gnome-base/gnome-common
16 > >
17 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
18 > >
19 > > gnome-base/gnome-common-3.7.4 pulled in by:
20 > > dev-python/pygobject-3.8.3 requires gnome-base/gnome-common
21 > >
22 > > Not sure why they are being pulled in as dependencies ... ?
23 >
24 > Further to what Alan said, I don't even have print-manager installed here.
25 > I checked what would be pulled in if I did install it and found 10
26 > dependencies, including the two Alan mentioned. Did you install
27 > print-manager explicitly, or was it pulled in by something else? I have 8
28 > kde-base/*-meta packages installed but none of them have pulled in
29 > print-manager.
30 >
31 > Printing seems to work well enough here since I connected my printers to my
32 > workstation directly. My mini-server used to be a print server until a new
33 > version of CUPS was released a few months ago. I couldn't get it to share
34 > printers so I just moved them.
35
36 I have not to my knowledge installed a print-manager explicitly, so I assume
37 it was pulled in by one of the kde metas.
38 --
39 Regards,
40 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>