Re: [gentoo-user] Is gnome becoming obligatory?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 09/12/2017 11:51, Mick wrote:
> I've seen gnome-base/gnome-common pulled in on more than one systems, all of 
> which have USE="-gnome" set:
> 
>  # emerge -uaNDvt world
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [nomerge       ] kde-apps/kdebase-meta-17.08.3:5::gentoo
> [nomerge       ]  kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.10.5:5::gentoo  USE="bluetooth 
> display-manager handbook pam pulseaudio sddm wallpapers -grub -gtk -
> networkmanager -plymouth -sdk"
> [nomerge       ]   kde-plasma/powerdevil-5.10.5:5::gentoo  USE="consolekit 
> handbook wireless -debug"
> [nomerge       ]    kde-frameworks/solid-5.37.0:5/5.37::gentoo  USE="nls -
> debug -doc {-test}"
> [ebuild     U  ]     sys-fs/udisks-2.7.4:2::gentoo [2.1.8:2::gentoo] USE="acl 
> gptfdisk introspection nls%* -cryptsetup -debug (-elogind) -lvm% (-selinux) -
> systemd" 1,257 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ]      sys-libs/libblockdev-2.14::gentoo  USE="crypt -bcache -
> dmraid -doc -kbd -lvm {-test}" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5 -python3_4 -
> python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_5 -python3_4 -python3_6" 268 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ]       dev-libs/volume_key-0.3.9::gentoo  USE="{-test}" 
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5 -python3_4 -python3_6" 
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_5 -python3_4 -python3_6" 435 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ]      gnome-base/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1:3::gentoo  
> USE="autoconf-archive" 153 KiB
> [nomerge       ] sys-libs/libblockdev-2.14::gentoo  USE="crypt -bcache -dmraid 
> -doc -kbd -lvm {-test}" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5 -python3_4 -python3_6" 
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_5 -python3_4 -python3_6"
> [ebuild  N     ]  dev-libs/libbytesize-1.2::gentoo  USE="-doc {-test}" 
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5 -python2_7 -python3_4 -python3_6" 
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5 -python3_4 -python3_6" 69 KiB
> 
> Total: 5 packages (1 upgrade, 4 new), Size of downloads: 2,180 KiB
> 
> All systems are on profile:  default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma
> 
> Why is gnome-base/gnome-common needed?
> 



Because sys-fs/udisks:2 depends on it.

It's NOT trying to install gnome, the package is gnome-common with this
description:

     Description:         Common files for development of Gnome packages

The list of installed files are:

$ equery files gnome-common
 * Searching for gnome-common ...
 * Contents of gnome-base/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1:
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
/usr/share
/usr/share/aclocal
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome-code-coverage.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome-common.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome-compiler-flags.m4
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1
/usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1/README

All they are is 4 small .m4 files to do useful stuff to let packages
build, very much like a few needed includes. They just happen to be
generically useful and just happen to be written by someone in the Gnome
team, and just happen to have names starting with this sequence of
letters: gee enn oh emm ee



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com