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Bug 188366 - Is gnome-base/control-center really a gnome-volume-manager RDEPEND?
Summary: Is gnome-base/control-center really a gnome-volume-manager RDEPEND?
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
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Reported: 2007-08-10 16:12 UTC by Henrik Johansson
Modified: 2007-08-13 16:25 UTC (History)
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Description Henrik Johansson 2007-08-10 16:12:17 UTC 
I'm using gnome-volume-manager without having gnome installed. I removed gnome-base/control-center as a dependency before the installation and it works  great anyway. Also the only dependencies listed in the gnome-volume-manager README (v2.17.0) are these:

	- libgnomeui-2.0
	- libglade-2.0
	- libhal-0 (from HAL 0.5.0 or later)
	- libdbus-1 (from D-BUS 0.31 or later)
	- libdbus-glib-1 (from D-BUS 0.31 or later)

I would like to have as few "unnecessary" packages as possible installed and just get the functionality of gnome-volume-manager. Is there a reason why the dependencies looks like they do and not like in the README?

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-10 16:25:27 UTC 
Maybe you could read the whole README, for starters? :)

gnome-volume-manager comes in two parts:

- gnome-volume-manager:    the manager daemon itself
- gnome-volume-properties: the control panel applet, for configuration (<-HERE!)
Comment 2 Henrik Johansson 2007-08-10 16:56:38 UTC 
I'm not sure what you mean, there are still no other dependencies listed and gnome-volume-properties also runs without control-center...
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-10 17:05:19 UTC 
Great, and users will run that from command line?
Comment 4 Henrik Johansson 2007-08-10 18:08:41 UTC 
USE flags like X, gnome or gtk could be used...
Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-10 18:14:50 UTC 
Sorry, but USE=gnome for a gnome-base package is plain stupid.
Comment 6 Henrik Johansson 2007-08-10 18:58:01 UTC 
There are some examples of gnome-base packages that uses the gnome USE flag.

gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.18.0-r2 depends on gnome-base/control-center if the use flag is enabled. The same thing with gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.6 and nautilus.

Personaly I think this would be a good approach. People who use gnome is likely to have the gnome USE flag enabled and there are others who uses gnome packages without having gnome installed.

Well, that's my €0,05 :)
Comment 7 Henrik Johansson 2007-08-13 10:52:08 UTC 
Is it still a stupid idea? Should I file a bug report on gnome-base/gnome-applets using the gnome use flag?
Comment 8 Henrik Johansson 2007-08-13 13:32:08 UTC 
Reopening to get a reply...
Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-13 15:07:13 UTC 
You got your reply in comment #1.
Comment 10 Henrik Johansson 2007-08-13 16:25:34 UTC 
Yes but I never got a reply to #6. Anyway, thanks for your reply.