Bug 603844 – virtual/freedesktop-icon-theme - add x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme to RDEPEND

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description charles17 2016-12-27 15:58:30 UTC]

Please add x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme to RDEPEND for virtual/freedesktop-icon-theme

[Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp 2016-12-28 20:39:15 UTC]

This doesn't make sense. freedesktop-icon-theme is a virtual for icon set packages that install a sufficient baseline of named icons. hicolor-icon-theme only installs the .theme file and hicolor folder for applications to drop their theme agnostic fallbacks to, such as app icons.

[Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp 2016-12-28 20:41:23 UTC]

or actually, maybe it makes sense as an additional RDEPEND, in addition to one of the || () ones listed. Just to have an additional place that pulls in hicolor-icon-theme, though all the theme packages themselves ought to be doing it really afaik.

[Comment 3 charles17 2016-12-29 07:17:06 UTC]

(In reply to Mart Raudsepp from comment #1)
> [...]
> hicolor-icon-theme only installs the .theme file and hicolor folder for
> applications to drop their theme agnostic fallbacks to, such as app icons.

Thanks for the explanation.  I wasn't aware of that fact.  

The reason I filed this bug it that I want to avoid pulling in such "sufficient baseline of named icons" when the (lightweight) hicolor-icon-theme is sufficient.

The workaround is to package.provide lxde-icon-theme and have hicolor-icon-theme in @world.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2016-12-31 13:26:31 UTC]

The packages only needing the basic hicolor icon theme structure should rdepend on it instead of depending on virtual/freedesktop-icon-theme

Leio already explained that... in summary, x11-themes/hicolor-icon-theme is not equivalent to the other providers of that virtual