Bug 537284 – dev-libs/glib-2.42.1 should not depend on gnome-base/dconf

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrei Slavoiu 2015-01-21 20:35:15 UTC]

glib is a dependency of many applications not related to the Gnome desktop, including Qt apps with the default USE flags. And adding the Gnome configuration system as a dependency of every KDE desktop seems overkill.

Please make it optional or maybe move it as a dependency of a Gnome specific packet that is already a dependency of applications using gsettings, like gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-22 07:34:53 UTC]

Headless servers don't need dconf, indeed.

[Comment 2 Patrick Lauer 2015-01-22 08:05:33 UTC]

  22 Jan 2015; Patrick Lauer <[e-mail]> glib-2.42.1.ebuild:
  Don't add dconf as unconditional dependency, this pulls in >70 packages and
  forces USE=X for everyone even on non-desktop profiles

  21 Jan 2015; Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]> -files/glib-2.12.12-fbsd.patch,
  -files/glib-2.36.4-znodelete.patch,
  -files/glib-2.37.x-external-gdbus-codegen.patch,
  -files/glib-2.38.2-configure.patch, -files/glib-2.38.2-sigaction.patch,
  -glib-2.38.2-r1.ebuild, -glib-2.40.0-r1.ebuild, glib-2.42.1.ebuild:
  Ensure dconf is present (#498436, #498474#c6), drop old


Fixed for now :)

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-22 08:19:33 UTC]

  22 Jan 2015; Patrick Lauer <[e-mail]> glib-2.42.1.ebuild:
  Don't add dconf as unconditional dependency, this pulls in >70 packages and
  forces USE=X for everyone even on non-desktop profiles

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-22 08:19:46 UTC]

oops

[Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2015-01-22 08:53:43 UTC]

You do need dconf for gsettings.
That you don't see it in the applications you are using is one thing, to have a broken default is another. See bug reports that lead to this modification.

[Comment 6 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2015-01-22 08:55:25 UTC]

I think the best course of action is to change +X to X and make sure it is enable in either desktop profile or gnome profile.

[Comment 7 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2015-01-22 08:57:32 UTC]

FTR, I'm running a headless UPnP server with rygel that does need to remember settings, so I add dconf in my world set for that. Just like shared-mime-info before we realized it is actually needed for gio mime detection. Imho, it should not be optional as gio is not an optional part of glib but well...

[Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-22 09:24:09 UTC]

(In reply to Gilles Dartiguelongue from comment #5)
> You do need dconf for gsettings.

So add the dependency to packages that use gsettings.

[Comment 9 Pacho Ramos 2015-01-22 09:59:20 UTC]

How many bugs do we need to discuss the same stuff?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 498436 ***

[Comment 10 Pacho Ramos 2015-01-22 10:12:29 UTC]

Ah, regarding the dconf[+X], it was dropped some minutes ago (but I noticed it in the other bug report as didn't notice this one until I reviewed part of the mail). That is the reason of my previous comment+complaint, sorry if I was a bit rude with that :(

[Comment 11 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-01-23 14:34:00 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #9)
> How many bugs do we need to discuss the same stuff?
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 498436 ***

Because that bug changed from fixing gedit to "fixing" glib, and this bug is about how "fixing" glib was the wrong thing to do.

[Comment 12 Pacho Ramos 2015-01-23 14:50:08 UTC]

That bug changed from gedit to glib at 2014-12-29