I've noticed that 'emerge xfce4' installs Thunar even if USE=minimal is set. I don't use this file manager and don't need it on my system. I've slightly modified xfce-base/xfce4 ebuild (will be added as attachment) and made --depclean to remove Thunar. Xfce runs fine, revdep-rebuild didn't show any broken deps. Why not make proper use of minimal flag and let people choose if they want Thunar or not? Reproducible: Always Actual Results: Thunar installed even if USE=minimal is set. Expected Results: Thunar not being pulled as dependency for xfce-base/xfce4 install.
Created attachment 197666 [details] modified and working ebuild which not install Thunar when USE=minimal set
Yeah, I don't think it's required (works fine here) so ACK. Pkgs that need the Thunar VFS libs should have the dep in them, so moving this behind USE minimal should be safe.
applied, thanks. (diff -u next time please). No revbump, so you will have to remerge the meta package (I think).
Yes, you have to re-emerge xfce-base/xfce4, then make depclean which should remove Thunar. Didn't make revbump as I'm not ebuild maintainter, just made this report for developers to reconsider. Some people that don't use desktop icons may want disable USE=-file-icons for xfdesktop (and recompile), as this pulls Thunar as well.
