Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-11 Thread Miles Bader
Jon Dowland writes: > I grudgingly use GIMP but wish I didn't have to. Dependencies on > DBUS and gconf2 are the least of its problems (if you consider those > problems at all). "MyPaint", which has been packaged, looks like a > possibly replacement. Hmm, if having

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:58, Dirk wrote: > Hello, > > can we please stay clear of all cancers Havoc Pennington has done? That seems unnecessarily rude. > HAL was shit and got replaced. It was better than what came before it . > dbus and gconf2 are just as shit and will

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
rement? Just curious in knowing what's coming... I ask because in Wheezy marking "dbus" or "gconf2" to be deleted do not seem to require GIMP to be removed so it may come from a secondary level of suggested/recommended package and thus can be avoided. Greetings, -- Ca

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On 10/04/12 10:58, Dirk wrote: > dbus and gconf2 are just as shit and will be replaced too. Last I heard dbus was going strong - even looking at offloading work to the kernel (harnessing existing kernel messaging systems e.g. netlink) to improve performance. I grudgingly use GIMP but wis

Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Dirk
Hello, can we please stay clear of all cancers Havoc Pennington has done? HAL was shit and got replaced. dbus and gconf2 are just as shit and will be replaced too. ...if necessary with gentoo. I am sick and tired of having to see his bullshit daemons... :( Luckily I am using unstable can

Re: Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

2006-05-26 Thread cga2000
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:18:10PM EDT, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I do NOT run gnome (or KDE), I use fvwm. > > I am trying to clean up my system and eliminate unnecessary packages. > > I have previously removed quite a few gnome applications, but some > things remain. > > I note that gconfd-2 is ru

Re: Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

2006-05-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
uninstalled them. Is there any reason > that I should not be able to safely remove these packages? It would > seem that gconf and gconf2 are the only things keeping all of these libs > around. Can I let apt remove all of this? You do not need gconf or gconf2. You can safely purge t

Re: Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

2006-05-25 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
I note that gconfd-2 is running when I run top. Is this just a leftover > from before I did my purge of gnome packages, or is it something that I > actually need? > > If I run 'apt-get --purge remove gconf gconf2' I get the following list > of packages to be remov

Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

2006-05-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
purge of gnome packages, or is it something that I actually need? If I run 'apt-get --purge remove gconf gconf2' I get the following list of packages to be removed: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gconf* gconf2* libb

Re: gconf gconf2 problem with Sarge

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:22:36 -0600, Glen Snyder wrote: > I've had a few hiccups lately with Sarge (on a linux box named tracer), > that seem to be related to gconf and gconf2 which I first noticed when > trying to start Galeon. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciat

gconf gconf2 problem with Sarge

2003-11-29 Thread Glen Snyder
I've had a few hiccups lately with Sarge (on a linux box named tracer), that seem to be related to gconf and gconf2 which I first noticed when trying to start Galeon. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Glen Both gconf processes seem to be running: tracer:/home/glen# ps j

gconf2 - sid gnome won't start

2003-11-25 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
s is correct; there isn't. However, gconf and gconf2 are both installed. dpkg -L gconf2 reveals the above file. I tried a dpkg-reconfigure gconf2 but no joy - that file won't install. I've ar -x /var/cache/apt/archives/gconf2_2.4.0.1-2_i386.deb tar xvzf data.t

gconf2 - sid gnome won't start

2003-11-25 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
s is correct; there isn't. However, gconf and gconf2 are both installed. dpkg -L gconf2 reveals the above file. I tried a dpkg-reconfigure gconf2 but no joy - that file won't install. I've ar -x /var/cache/apt/archives/gconf2_2.4.0.1-2_i386.deb tar xvzf data.t

GConf2

2003-01-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
The last week or two, Gconfd has started taking noticeably large amounts of memory and swap, to the point that over 24 hours, my system is running quite tight on memory (I have 512 MiB RAM, 512 MiB swap.) Latest report is 134 MiB of memory, 23.4 MiB resident, which to me leaves a suspicion that it

gconf2 under sid

2002-11-22 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, Something looks wrong on my SID. when I use dpkg -L gconf2, the list of files contains /etc/gconf/2/path but this is not present on my system !:-| I 've tried this but have no effect !:-| dpkg -i /var/cach