on 09/12/2007 01:34 AM Jesús Guerrero wrote the following:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:25:36 +0300
> Thanasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> # emerge -pve gnome > gnome
>> # grep -i acpi gnome
>> [ebuild R ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1 USE="acpi crypt disk-partition
>> -debug -dell -doc -pcmcia (-selinux)" 0 kB
>> [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.18.0-r2 USE="acpi apm gnome
>> hal ipv6 -debug -doc -gstreamer" 0 kB
>> #
>>
>> See the acpi dependency? Is that supposed to work without acpid?
>>
> That is where your error is. The acpi flag doesn't automatically mean
> that that package needs acpid to work, there are lots of packages that
> have the "acpi" substring in their names.
>
> If you look into gnome-applets-2.18.0-r2.ebuild for "acpi" you see
> many things. But none of them is in the DEPEND or RDEPENDS declarations,
> which in turn, means that the use of that flag should not add any
> additional dependency.
>
> Even more, at the final part of the ebuild you can see:
>
> pkg_postinst() {
> gnome2_pkg_postinst
>
> if use acpi && ! use hal ; then
> elog "It is highly recommended that you install acpid if you
> use the"
> elog "battstat applet to prevent any issues with other
> applications "
> elog "trying to read acpi information."
> fi
> }
>
> That message appears when you emerge gnome-applets. And it is telling
> you from first hand that you *need* to emerge acpid _by hand_ if you
> want all the acpi based applications to behave correctly.
>
> So that is what you should be doing.
>
Thanks.
I had not seen those logs.
Just deleted them. :-[
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