Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

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

On 09/12/2017 14:04, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
> 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.
> 


Why are you laying this at Poettering's door?

To the best of my knowledge, he is not behind udisks{,2} or
gnome-common, so why include him here?

I'm all in favour of Lennart-bashing, but let's keep the bashing to what
he's responsible for.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com