[gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd?

[gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd?

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi,

I've just rebuilt my system, and emerged gnome-light this time instead
of gnome.

I noticed battstat isn't part of gnome-applets, but when I try and
emerge it, I get all these wierd deps.  For a start, why does it need
apmd? I thought I had it working with acpi only... (I certainly didn't
have apmd on my last install).  There are no useful use flags that I can
see...

Is there another battstat that uses acpi?

$ emerge -pvt battstat

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] x11-terms/gnome-terminal (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.2-r1)
[blocks B     ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.2-r1)
[blocks B     ] gnome-base/gnome-session (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.2-r1)
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-extra/battstat-2.0.13  USE="nls" 805 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.2-r1  USE="cups kde nls" 6,129 kB
[ebuild  NS   ]   gnome-base/control-center-1.4.0.5-r3  USE="nls -debug" 3,303 kB
[ebuild  NS   ]    gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4  USE="nls ssl -doc" 1,024 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     gnome-base/gnome-common-2.12.0  USE="-debug" 58 kB
[ebuild  NS   ]     gnome-base/gconf-1.0.9  USE="nls" 765 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     gnome-base/oaf-0.6.10  USE="nls" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      dev-util/indent-2.2.9-r2  USE="nls" 662 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37  USE="nls" 750 kB
[ebuild  NS   ]   gnome-base/libglade-0.17-r6  USE="X nls -bonobo" 409 kB
[ebuild  N    ]    dev-libs/libxml-1.8.17-r2  USE="-doc" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5  USE="X -doc -mmx" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2  USE="kde nls -doc" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   media-libs/imlib-1.9.14-r3  0 kB
[ebuild  NS   ]   gnome-base/orbit-0.5.17-r1  0 kB
[ebuild  NS   ]   sys-libs/db-1.85-r3  14 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  sys-apps/apmd-3.2.1_p4  USE="X nls" 92 kB

MTIA,
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Re: [gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd?

[Holly Bostick]

Iain Buchanan schreef:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just rebuilt my system, and emerged gnome-light this time instead
> of gnome.
> 
> I noticed battstat isn't part of gnome-applets, but when I try and
> emerge it, I get all these wierd deps.  For a start, why does it need
> apmd? I thought I had it working with acpi only... (I certainly didn't
> have apmd on my last install).  There are no useful use flags that I can
> see...
> 
> Is there another battstat that uses acpi?
> 
> $ emerge -pvt battstat
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [blocks B     ] x11-terms/gnome-terminal (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.2-r1)
> [blocks B     ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.2-r1)
> [blocks B     ] gnome-base/gnome-session (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.2-r1)


>From this output, it looks like the battstat applet you're trying to
install is for GNOME 1.x, not GNOME 2.x, which is what you're most
likely running.

GNOME is not "modular" in the way that KDE is; many individual GNOME
"widgets" are not installable separately from the meta-package, most
notably with applets.

And IIrc (I don't have a laptop, so I generally ignore the battery
applet), the applet you're looking for is included with the
gnome-applets package, and will use acpid support if that USE flag is
enabled:

 emerge -pv gnome-applets
>>> cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : No new packages have been emerged, checksum
index OK...

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.12.2  USE="acpi hal -apm
-debug -ipv6" 0 kB

Yes, in fact it is included:

 equery files gnome-base/gnome-applets
[ Searching for packages matching gnome-base/gnome-applets... ]
* Contents of gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.12.2:
<snip>
/usr/libexec/battstat-applet-2
<snip>

So, since gnome-applets is not a dependency of gnome-light (!?? never
noticed that), just install it and you should then be able to add the
battstat-2 applet to the panel via the normal means of adding an applet
to the gnome-panel (right-click on the panel, Add to Panel, etc).

HTH,
Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] battstat requires apmd? [solved]

[Iain Buchanan]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 11:38 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Iain Buchanan schreef:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've just rebuilt my system, and emerged gnome-light this time instead
> > of gnome.
> > 
> > I noticed battstat isn't part of gnome-applets, but when I try and
> > emerge it, I get all these wierd deps.
> > 
> > Is there another battstat that uses acpi?
> 
> >From this output, it looks like the battstat applet you're trying to
> install is for GNOME 1.x, not GNOME 2.x, which is what you're most
> likely running.

that's what I suspected...

> And IIrc (I don't have a laptop, so I generally ignore the battery
> applet), the applet you're looking for is included with the
> gnome-applets package, and will use acpid support if that USE flag is
> enabled:

That was precisely it!  I didn't have the acpi use flag, so the battery
applet wasn't included in gnome-applets...

I'm trying to keep things to a minimum, so I mostly have -xxx use flags
in make.conf, and specify required use flags in package.use.  So far the
battery applet is the only one that had me going :)

thanks,
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