From: Bruce Dubbs Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 7:25 PM To: BLFS Development List Subject: [blfs-dev] terminals
I would like to cut down the number of packages in BLFS. The maintenance burden is tremendous and we have lots of duplication of capabilities. When it comes to terminals, we have: xterm gnome-terminal xfce4-terminal lxterminal qterminal konsole4 konsole5 I propose that we remove konsole4 and gnome-terminal. We already want to remove as much of KDE4 as we can in favor of kf5 and plasma. There are a few packages that use KDE4, notably k3b and amarok, but konsole5 has the look and feel of konsole4 and the build of the KF5 libraries is essentially the same as building kdelibs although the technique is very different. We removed the gnome desktop some time ago because of its dependency on systemd. I have had problems running gnome-terminal and have isolated the problem to an issue with dbus. For me, I have to launch gnome-terminal using 'dbus-launch gnome-terminal' either from the command line or changing the .desktop file. Why a terminal app needs dbus is beyond my understanding. None of the other terminals need it. I suppose it is something to do with the gnome desktop. In addition, gnome-terminal refuses to start without a utf-8 LANG setting. Again, none of the other terminals have this restriction. Unless there are objections, I will archive these packages later this week. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page I'm just a user, but I won’t miss gnome-terminal. Gnome, as mentioned, uses a lot of systemd specific code, so whatever uses it, and refuses to function without it, should be subject to the axe. -Kenny
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