Summary: | gnome-screensaver overides xscreensaver | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Donald R. Gray Jr <donald.r.gray> |
Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | minor | CC: | evert.gentoo |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: | gnome-2.16.2.ebuild |
Description
Donald R. Gray Jr
2007-03-24 07:21:29 UTC
Created attachment 114205 [details]
gnome-2.16.2.ebuild
gnome-2.16.2.ebuild with screensaver use flag.
No. Gnome uses gnome-screensaver. You can use gnome-light, if you don't want all of gnome. William Jon McCann, the gnome-screensaver developer says this is a Gentoo bug (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364969). I agree. Gnome-lite is not an acceptable solution. There is no problem with using gnome-screensaver by default, but Gentoo is about choice. There is a problem: we (the gnome maintainers) have to test and maintain the alternative. We have more than enough work maintaining what we have. We provide the gnome meta to give a full, default install of gnome. We provide the gnome-light meta for anyone who wants something else. Note: nothing in gnome-screensave keeps xscreensaver from being installed; feel free to install it yourself, and use it. gnome-screensaver installs under 2M total (~250k if you don't care about locales...) so it's not a huge burden to have installed. Finally, the ultimate choice for gentoo is an overlay; copy the meta to an overlay, delete gnome-screensaver from it, and you're done. The meta changes very infrequently, so it's not a huge amount of work. As a workaround, I added gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver-2.24 to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided This way, gnome-screensaver won't be installed and xscreensaver can be used without problems. |