Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

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

On 11/12/2013 18:29, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 Dec 2013 10:58:19 Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Tuesday 10 Dec 2013 23:49:06 Mick wrote:
>>> I seem to have two packages from gnome:
>>>
>>> # emerge --depclean -v -a app-admin/system-config-printer-gnome
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>>   app-admin/system-config-printer-gnome-1.4.3 pulled in by:
>>>     kde-base/print-manager-4.10.5 requires
>>>     app-admin/system-config-printer-
>>>
>>> gnome
>>>
>>> # emerge --depclean -v -a gnome-base/gnome-common
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>>   gnome-base/gnome-common-3.7.4 pulled in by:
>>>     dev-python/pygobject-3.8.3 requires gnome-base/gnome-common
>>>
>>> Not sure why they are being pulled in as dependencies ... ?
>>
>> Further to what Alan said, I don't even have print-manager installed here.
>> I checked what would be pulled in if I did install it and found 10
>> dependencies, including the two Alan mentioned. Did you install
>> print-manager explicitly, or was it pulled in by something else? I have 8
>> kde-base/*-meta packages installed but none of them have pulled in
>> print-manager.
>>
>> Printing seems to work well enough here since I connected my printers to my
>> workstation directly. My mini-server used to be a print server until a new
>> version of CUPS was released a few months ago. I couldn't get it to share
>> printers so I just moved them.
> 
> I have not to my knowledge installed a print-manager explicitly, so I assume 
> it was pulled in by one of the kde metas.
> 

$ equery depends print-manager
 * These packages depend on print-manager:
kde-base/kdeutils-meta-4.11.4 (cups ?
>=kde-base/print-manager-4.11.4:4[aqua=])


Set USE="-cups" to fix



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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com