On 09/12/2017 14:04, taii...@gmx.com 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. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com