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Bug 921579 - media-gfx/fontforge-20230101 installs useless .desktop entry with USE="-X -gtk"
Summary: media-gfx/fontforge-20230101 installs useless .desktop entry with USE="-X -gtk"
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Fonts Team
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Reported: 2024-01-07 17:03 UTC by Esteve Varela Colominas
Modified: 2024-01-07 17:51 UTC (History)
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Description Esteve Varela Colominas 2024-01-07 17:03:20 UTC 
When the GUI interface for fontforge is disabled, it installs a useless desktop file in /usr/share/applications/org.fontforge.FontForge.desktop

Running this file does nothing, as Terminal=false, and it doesn't support any graphical mode.

Currently I do the following in my configuration (/etc/portage/env/media-gfx/fontforge):

    INSTALL_MASK="
    /usr/share/applications
    /usr/share/fontforge
    /usr/share/icons
    /usr/share/metainfo
    /usr/share/mime
    /usr/share/pixmaps
    "

But I feel this should be handled in the ebuild.
Comment 1 Esteve Varela Colominas 2024-01-07 17:04:40 UTC 
I should note that I've ran with this INSTALL_MASK for as long as I can remember (potentially since around 2020), and nothing has broken, as I'm pretty sure that the excluded directories are only used for the GUI.