On 09/12/2017 14:04, [email protected] 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.
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Alan McKinnon
[email protected]
