Bug 172006

Summary:	gnome-screensaver overides xscreensaver
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
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	gnome-2.16.2.ebuild

Description Donald R. Gray Jr 2007-03-24 07:21:29 UTC

Gnome screensaver overrides xscreensaver,so far the only way to get xscreensaver back is to remove gnome-screensaver, could we possibly get a screensaver use flag for gnome-base/gnome. 

I am currently removing the dependency in my overlay and a use flag would be much nicer. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Donald R. Gray Jr 2007-03-24 07:23:05 UTC

Created attachment 114205 [details]
gnome-2.16.2.ebuild

gnome-2.16.2.ebuild with screensaver use flag.

Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-27 01:38:49 UTC

No.  Gnome uses gnome-screensaver.  You can use gnome-light, if you don't want all of gnome.

Comment 3 Ralph Hartley 2007-04-07 04:50:20 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-04-16 16:29:33 UTC

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.

Comment 5 Evert 2008-12-19 11:46:08 UTC

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.