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[217.169.3.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o22sm12263914wrb.40.2017.12.09.02.45.48 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 09 Dec 2017 02:45:48 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory? Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:45:49 +0000 Message-ID: <2343494.DDJaQvByiF@dell_xps> In-Reply-To: References: <6582741.F9gJHCEsXr@dell_xps> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1688069.u8K1aZ0tKU"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e72e5d55-fade-484a-a4ef-d62e72799f93 X-Archives-Hash: c7d7d4312f40b717e2c5242bc7463a22 --nextPart1688069.u8K1aZ0tKU Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Saturday, 9 December 2017 10:34:32 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/12/17 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! > > [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1:3::gentoo > > USE="autoconf-archive" 153 KiB > > [...] > > > > All systems are on profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma > > > > Why is gnome-base/gnome-common needed? > > It's an extremely lightweight package. There seem to be some packages > that need files from it. The package itself only installs these files: > > $ qlist gnome-common > /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh > /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-common.m4 > /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-compiler-flags.m4 > /usr/share/aclocal/gnome-code-coverage.m4 > /usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1/ChangeLog.bz2 > /usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0-r1/README.bz2 > > So basically it only copies some small text files to /usr. It doesn't > build anything. Thank you all for detailed and clear replies. You'd forgive me for being (a little) paranoid about Poettering's fingers getting anywhere near my systems. :-p -- Regards, Mick --nextPart1688069.u8K1aZ0tKU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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