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Bug 38572 - Beep Media Player gnome dependance.
Summary: Beep Media Player gnome dependance.
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Hanno Böck
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Reported: 2004-01-17 21:31 UTC by Pat Erley
Modified: 2004-09-20 08:46 UTC (History)
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Description Pat Erley 2004-01-17 21:31:46 UTC
beep has:

gnome? ( >=gnome-base/gnome-2.2 )

depending on a gnome meta package is a 'better' idea, but still doesn't seem to be necessary to me.  although the ability to install to the gnome menus is nice, perhaps a dognomeapp [beep-media-player] of some sort would be a better possible solution.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="gnome" emerge -pv beep-media-player
2. USE="-gnome" emerge -pv beep-media-player
3. compare outputs

Actual Results:  
wanted to emerge gnome to use beep.

Expected Results:  
not wanted to install gnome.  it's not runtime dependant or compile time
dependant on the app.
Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-01-18 06:07:35 UTC
Hanno, you should _never ever_ be depending on gnome meta package. It is bad, very bad. Find the exact gnome deps and use those.

Now i look @ the pack, the unzip dep is runtime ? Seems implausible to me ( the whole dep seems redundant).
You probably forgot the pkgconfig buildtime dep.
The order of RDEP & DEP is switched the wrong way.
Install the .desktop in /usr/share/applications (might need fixing of the .desktop), now it is using the old spec. You don't need to make this gnome specific, with the new spec a lot more than gnome alone uses those .desktop's .

Last but not least, the whole postinst is a big warning @ how unstable this pack is. Should this be in the live tree as it is? Consider p.mask-ing it.
Comment 2 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev 2004-09-20 08:46:18 UTC
has been fixed a while ago.