| Summary: | USE=desktop-file request | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | tot-to <bugs.gentoo.org.list> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | alex_y_xu |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Requests for new global USE flags should be sent to the gentoo-dev mailing list. https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/ *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 208047 *** |
I'm a user of a KISS wm, which does not provide Windows™-like menus, desktop icons, etc. GUI software is called just by typing the binary name in PATH, just like any other software. For me desktop-files is some kind of useless junk. Recently a lot of software were made harddep on dev-util/desktop-file-utils, i.e. it is not only junk text files, but from now on also a junk software required without any reason. I've added it to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided and everything compiles and works just fine. It means that in reality there is no real need in this software. Please make these dependencies optional. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo dev-util/desktop-file-utils-0.22 >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided/01desktop-laptop 2. emerge -C dev-util/desktop-file-utils 3. emerge -1 `equery d dev-util/desktop-file-utils | awk '{print $1}' | sed s/^/=/g` Actual Results: No crashes or any kind of problems Expected Results: Build crash due to lack of hard dependency To be more specific, here is all the software on my system, that depends on dev-util/desktop-file-utils, but compiles and works just fine without it: $ equery d dev-util/desktop-file-utils * These packages depend on dev-util/desktop-file-utils: app-office/dia-0.97.3 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) app-text/evince-2.32.0-r4 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-cpp/atkmm-2.24.1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-cpp/cairomm-1.12.0-r1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-cpp/glibmm-2.46.1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.4-r3 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-cpp/pangomm-2.38.1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-libs/atk-2.18.0 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.14 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-libs/libcroco-0.6.9 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-libs/libsigc++-2.6.2 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-python/pygobject-2.28.6-r55 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-python/pygtk-2.24.0-r4 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) dev-util/gtk-update-icon-cache-3.16.7 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.18.1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) gnome-base/libglade-2.6.4-r2 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) gnome-base/librsvg-2.40.11 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.34 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) media-libs/libart_lgpl-2.3.21-r2 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) sys-block/gparted-0.24.0 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.32.2 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.28-r1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) x11-libs/pango-1.38.1 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils) x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.20.2-r2 (dev-util/desktop-file-utils)