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 -- Regards, Mick
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