Summary: | gnome-desktop has missing dependency for "control-center" | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Michael Lee Yohe <aksansai> |
Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | major | CC: | gentlec |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Michael Lee Yohe
2005-10-04 08:50:30 UTC
Dialog box contains: The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. o gnome-desktop is not gnome. gnome is gnome (or gnome-light). If you just emerge gnome-desktop, you're not expected to have a working gnome system. The gnome metaebuild has a correct dep on control-center. I know it's bad taste to comment on a bug that is considered resolved - but figure this: I understand your logic in-so-far as if I wanted the entire Gnome suite. However, a minimalist (something Gentoo allows very nicely) may only want a smaller portion of Gnome and choose to install the mere basics as in: emerge -a gnome-desktop nautilus metacity gnome-panel gnome-applets Based on the above scenario, the essentials will be pulled in (as per the dependency layout), but gnome-desktop itself is still rendered non-functional because it *requires* another package to be installed. Adding a dependency for control-center produces a *working* Gnome (light) environment without the fluff of graphics viewers, Mozilla (??!!), bloated email clients (evolution), editors, etc. I would normally like to use USE flags to rid these - but there is no such capability. Does this not make sense? Should dependencies only be tied to things that make other things compile properly? This is a rather messed up philosophy, considering the small effort it would take to correct. Google for the error message - there are quite a few people that are just as confused as I am. This is what gnome-light is for. gnome-desktop is a package of libs, locale files, and documentation, and pictures. The only executable in the package is gnome-about. It has nothing to do with any errors on startup of gnome, so you must have it mistaken for something else. I realize it has an unfortunately suggestive name, but that's what upstream named it, so that's what we have to live with. Seriously, you want gnome-light. We maintain that to get the (hopefully) minimal set of gnome packages, without all the fluff. If there's something in it that you think shouldn't be, please open a bug, and we'll try and remove it. |