Ühel kenal päeval, K, 06.01.2016 kell 16:23, kirjutas tot-to:
> 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 the desktop-files
> are
> some kind of use
Rich Freeman wrote:
> I'm not sure it is really worth trying to control this via a USE flag
> for such a light dependency.
I don't care how light dependencies are - I want to be able to choose
every single one that is optional. That is Gentoo's killer feature,
and I am thoroughly disappointed when
> I'd have to check but I suspect that portage hangs onto build-time
> dependencies by default, probably so that you're not uninstalling them
> and reinstalling them anytime you do anything. Strictly speaking,
> however, it would be safe to depclean anything that is only a
> build-time dependency
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:47 PM, tot-to wrote:
>
> It would be great to make the intallation of desktop-files optional,
> but I mostly concerned about the dependency on
> dev-util/desktop-file-utils...
>
> I think such dependency should be either removed, because it's not
> really required or at le
t least be optional.
-Original Message-
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:59:47 +0300
From: Sergey Popov
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=desktop-file request
Unfortunately i doubt that we could help with that. I did not look into
every software package from your list, b
Unfortunately i doubt that we could help with that. I did not look into
every software package from your list, but many of those packages did
not have compile time switch for (not)using desktop-file-utils.
If you are still needed to clean up files, that cause no harm to your
system - i can only su
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 the desktop-files are
some kind of useless junk.
Recently a lot of software were made harddep on
dev-util/des
