Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.2 masked?

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 11/18/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@comcast.net> wrote:
> I assume that this means gnome-libs-1.4.2 is going to be removed in one
> month. but lots of packages directly depend on gnome-libs:

Yes, all old gnome and gnome-dependant things are going away as they
are unmaintained.

>         # equery depends gnome-base/gnome-libs

equery depends is (nearly) useless.

>         [ Searching for packages depending on gnome-base/gnome-libs... ]
>         x11-misc/gtkdiff-1.8.0-r2

This hasn't seen an update in 5 years.  Are you actually using this?
If so, what does "ldd `which gtkdiff`" report?  It might be a mistake
and might actually depend on gtk2.  But given it's age, I sort of
doubt this.  If it does depend on gtk1, well, there are several other
graphical diff utilities in portage.  "emerge --searchdesc" or "eix
-S" are your friends here.

>         gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4
>         gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37
>         gnome-base/libglade-0.17-r6
>         media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5

Old gnome stuff...do you actually use these, and if so, why haven't
you upgraded to the current version of gnome?

>         app-misc/gfontview-0.5.0-r6

Just recompile this without the gnome USE flag.  From
/usr/portage/app-misc/gfontview/ChangeLog:

  17 Nov 2006; Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@gentoo.org>
  gfontview-0.5.0-r6.ebuild:
  Dropping gnome useflag for gnome-1.x removal

>         gnome-extra/guppi-0.40.3-r3

Lots of other plotting packages in portage.

>         dev-perl/gtk-perl-glade-0.7008-r1
>         dev-perl/gtk-perl-0.7009-r2

Do you actually use these, or are they installed as some other
dependancy?  Anyway, gtk2-perl and gtk2-gladexml exist for gtk2
applications.

>         dev-db/unixODBC-2.2.11-r1

This can just be remerged as well:

  17 Nov 2006; Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@gentoo.org> unixODBC-2.2.6.ebuild,
  unixODBC-2.2.6-r1.ebuild, unixODBC-2.2.8.ebuild, unixODBC-2.2.11.ebuild,
  unixODBC-2.2.11-r1.ebuild:
  Dropping gnome useflag for gnome-1.x removal

Same response as gtkdiff.  Do you actually use them?  If not, why do you care?

-Richard
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