From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E463139083 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 12:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D5DCE108E; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 12:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C1ECE107D for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 12:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([173.239.219.2]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102 [212.227.17.174]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MJFBe-1eKu3F1jYY-002px8; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 13:04:51 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, Mick References: <6582741.F9gJHCEsXr@dell_xps> <2343494.DDJaQvByiF@dell_xps> From: "Taiidan@gmx.com" Message-ID: <6cb25230-9803-2bd4-ee69-66504d0d1822@gmx.com> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 07:04:49 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 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 In-Reply-To: <2343494.DDJaQvByiF@dell_xps> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:pr1mfusWBuEHsjC6I74K6UrWHjW/d5X/TLainvmoYaK9xO3f/U1 UjWgLdrl+uEGrM//hQ7g5QcuZaQVow9bCLO6ohVO9CkdMvAHf30COUrAJIx3+ng0MZqxSYE tEzkTRR4cUmkLLVAv22X+/KFkKs7W/lAe1rhFAPUPPWTRwMzrjLyqcTINIEW/pf2/yuQL3a dSRHJjYB15OHYa0Hy5xDQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:78DxCkjTH+Q=:AAc7M39Q6cq1geDRB46lzb 9KvJPIe5rOrOcCBJsOXAhdPSRYb67liZn8DdXwwbFVWOEOYxr7kZ92u96F0MFnYuP/ElPmtY2 cTDx4OLYRNThPXOs5A33Rg5FNlJJIvVrAMO5W6n8DE5fIP2tfrKBLY4hBTo3NeRD6eaZlAOJn Ybor4xRVoIf2Qon3gij9FXi6QUebb40gnNNUSwaS0zacmMxnjpKVCy3yLjGEujw6qRJric2Kc YfP8V4nezliwakoOpTe0oflfx8qJXoyUJVgIqkfr7fxT+zCBCCjKeyNsn9hDaOH2R03J6xGkO HGSICm2h7OND9sg0698TC8gVDWGZU0aAF2HkAlyNmMW9Kt1wgLqb3iJfeQ19pa0KPD7nPWR0d 4bBSFv9bks20Vpc0aOHQ8SbtpahnHkaZxn8/QcKCc2+8m7Mg0ku+A21Yb3u33x5G5kHXyJ/R3 wqQXxwmb0T8HbWQg4VVvuUFKAV4E7ie3ctP+6sGbB0BP2mQcYNXZA421n8ff6l/vLFG4w47Uz jt0Aa2J12ehd1m6G+2rwdhSBM1NPS7K+YdKs17CIo8bk+4pQ4I6L/+xcmhKaj1IgznbEFSoem 2TPMNTN+1+rjOSVylGV3Xt2Ujn3Ki3wRMNUfQzZxvJCBtrRbySoDpQpLY0KZUHFGaqBlcFL9S 7u5Z6x3RnC7tMfUI16E0XTx2lcEQJLTUgFNGfuYmDjaDGIla9w8SS6vwdugbfvvUnMU1FTjDA vLhuVBfrHisCJx1Eb0bBENreyzZis6vjT9u3Ch3XCRhoHr3l9udLC0CCewEi5OX0q3PQ9KfY5 BJdFODCp06T0ddihsONGEjzQMK+p052uCiO/3021eXQrRZJiPE= X-Archives-Salt: 8556e661-14a6-4f3d-bcc7-d35acb8df9ca X-Archives-Hash: ad39a473cb907da7db4f6d89678c37a6 On 12/09/2017 05:45 AM, Mick wrote: > 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 > For now, only a few text files - tomorrow - many more. You give poettering an inch he will take hundred miles.