Bug 18252 – sys-apps/utempter is needed by kde

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2003-03-26 16:59:50 UTC]

I tested the masked sys-apps/utempter and I can say it works for me. 
I encourage to move this ebuild towards stable and hopefully to list it as 
a dependency of kdebase. 
 
In fact without utempter kwrited (the kde deamon that displays output of wall, write, 
talk...) is broken. I know that nobody uses kwrited, but I hate to know that there's 
something broken on my computer :P 
 
Thx.

[Comment 1 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2003-06-01 13:45:13 UTC]

it is marked stable, but i can't really figure out why it was masked afterwards - the 
comment in package.mask makes it look like it was masked simply because it is a 
dependancy for xterm... 
 
seemant? 
thanks 
best regards 
Thilo 

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-06-01 14:01:48 UTC]

well, I didn't mask it -- it was already masked -- I simply moved it to the xfree set of packages in the mask.  I will unmask it when I'm done with the new xfree layout.

[Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2004-05-17 01:32:49 UTC]

Now that utempter is going stable everywhere, can you make it a dependency for 
future versions of kdelibs (not kdebase as stated early, it changed in the 3.2 
series), so we can close this bug?

[Comment 4 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-05-18 16:07:51 UTC]

when we get our first 3.3 alpha1 in portage, remind me to add it as a dep, Gregorio

[Comment 5 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2004-05-26 14:01:50 UTC]

> when we get our first 3.3 alpha1 in portage, remind me to add it as a dep, Gregorio

so it seems it's time for utempter as a dep for kdelibs-3.3_alpha1...

[Comment 6 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-09-03 06:51:23 UTC]

utempter is a pdepend dep for xorg-x11, so perhaps this is now fixed?

[Comment 7 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-09-03 06:53:10 UTC]

yep, verified.  we should be good to go on utempter now.