Bug 619186

Summary:	x11-wm/compiz: Stop depending on deprecated GNOME libraries
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mart Raudsepp <leio>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	treecleaner
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	Pending removal: 2018-01-27
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	619180

Description Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2017-05-21 12:44:52 UTC

x11-wm/compiz[gnome] stuff seems unnecessary and only serves to depend on deprecated library slots. At least the gnome-control-center and gnome-desktop parts - the metacity part might be useful for some cases, if the theming format is similar enough, but for gnome3 not so much (client-side decorations with header bars don't really do this kind of theme..). So USE=gnome for this is questionable these days.

Please consider getting rid of gnome-desktop:2 and gnome-control-center:2 dependencies. The gnome-control-center one seems to be about gnome-window-settings or something, while no-one really stores these settings in there anymore, as I believe things like MATE have their own locations for these kind of settings. gconf isn't really used either. I can't really find what gnome-desktop is linked for, maybe gnome_window_manager_get_type was from there, not sure.

It's time to clean things up regarding ancient GNOME2 library slots, please stop using them, thanks.

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2018-02-14 15:27:08 UTC

this was removed