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.
