On Saturday 07 Dec 2013 10:31:38 you wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 10:16:43 +0000 > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why is gnome-base suddenly necessary on my system? Is it > > media-plugins/gst- plugins-gconf that wants to pull it in this > > morning, when it hadn't done so before? > > > > This is what I see, but I also include the full enchilada below in > > case it is more informative: > > > > [nomerge ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf-0.10.31:0.10 > > [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gconf-3.2.6-r1:2 [2.32.4-r1:2] > > Note how there is "gconf" in > "media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf-0.10.31:0.10"; thus, you don't want > this so I suggest you to add "gnome-base/gconf" and > "media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf" to package.mask. By doing so, you > will be warned when something depends on it in the future. > > In this case you will find that net-im/pidgin[gstreamer] depends on it; > thus, you will want to disable that USE flag on net-im/pidgin.
Thanks Tom! It used to be the case that setting -gnome globally would be sufficient, without having to manually mask packages. I had gstreamer in pidgin to be able to get sound. I'm guessing that I need gstreamer in pidgin to be able to set up a voice call in gtalk. Is it the case that now one has to install gnome-base to be able to use gstreamer? -- Regards, Mick
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