Bug 431972 – dev-java/icedtea-bin-7 should depend on gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description leonbaum2 2012-08-19 14:21:47 UTC]

When I try to run some java GUI applications with icedtea-bin-7 I get the following error:

GLib-GIO-ERROR **: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system

I did not get this error with icedtea-bin-6 and installing gsettings-desktop-schemas fixed the error.

[Comment 1 Sylvain Emery 2014-06-18 13:10:09 UTC]

Up. Same error for me, and leonbaum2's solution of emerging gsettings-desktop-schemas also fixed the error.

(In reply to leonbaum2 from comment #0)
> When I try to run some java GUI applications with icedtea-bin-7 I get the
> following error:
> 
> GLib-GIO-ERROR **: No GSettings schemas are installed on the system
> 
> I did not get this error with icedtea-bin-6 and installing
> gsettings-desktop-schemas fixed the error.

[Comment 2 codifies 2014-12-13 04:47:58 UTC]

java shouldn't depend on gnome, gnome is not Linux

[Comment 3 Andrew John Hughes 2015-01-31 18:10:18 UTC]

The dependency needs adding. I'll also add it to the source code e-build in the java overlay. It's required for retrieving native proxy settings.

[Comment 4 Andrew John Hughes 2015-04-16 01:27:57 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.5.5 in the java overlay.

[Comment 5 James Le Cuirot 2015-05-10 10:05:39 UTC]

Now in the tree. This isn't really a big deal, it has no major dependencies besides glib and you need that anyway.

[Comment 6 James Le Cuirot 2015-05-10 10:06:32 UTC]

Oops, just realised this bug is for -bin. That isn't in the tree yet but it should be later today.

[Comment 7 James Le Cuirot 2015-05-10 20:58:51 UTC]

Really now in the tree!

[Comment 8 tot-to 2015-05-17 19:39:18 UTC]

Hello,
What is the purpose of these files:

/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/gsettings-desktop-schemas.convert
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/wm-schemas.convert

on the system without GConf installed?

May be gsettings-desktop-schemas needs to have "gnome" USE-flag then?

[Comment 9 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2015-06-13 14:23:36 UTC]

(In reply to tot-to from comment #8)
> May be gsettings-desktop-schemas needs to have "gnome" USE-flag then?

I agree here, or at least be kept in IUSE="X".

[Comment 10 Tom Dexter 2015-07-12 15:17:25 UTC]

Agreed.  I'd really appreciate a use flag for that dependency with dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.  That gsettings-desktop-schemas took 50 minutes to compile on my system and I truely don't need it.

[Comment 11 Conway S. Smith 2015-10-19 12:58:53 UTC]

This really does need to be under a USE flag, either X or awt.  I have headless boxes I don't want to install X (or Wayland or any GUI on), but I may sometimes still want java.

[Comment 12 James Le Cuirot 2015-10-19 13:08:35 UTC]

(In reply to Conway S. Smith from comment #11)
> This really does need to be under a USE flag, either X or awt.

I think I already discussed this at length in another bug report but what makes you think it's pulling in any X stuff besides this one small package? gsettings-desktop-schemas contains just 38 harmless files, mostly XML. If you disable the introspection flag, which should probably do on a non-desktop system anyway, then the only major dependency it pulls in is glib and as I said above, you need that for Java anyway.