On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:12 AM, R0b0t1 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Saturday, 9 December 2017 12:00:12 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > 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 >>> >>> Are you sure you need udisks? And policykit? >> >> I'm pretty sure Mick runs KDE, which requires both of those. >> > > Eventually emerging @world will just pull in the entirety of the > Gentoo package repository, and we won't have to worry about what is or > isn't necessary. > Not that I would object much to have gnome-common if I needed it (I don't), but it is a bit shocking that installing kde stuff pulls gnome stuff. After all, they're supposed to be alternative worldviews, er, desktop environments. Maybe the relevant people should stop and think whether unbridled complexity is a good idea?
(Of course, this is not a Gentoo-specific issue.) Jorge
