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samoloth

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Registered: 2019-09-11

Posts: 18

Weird dependency for gnome-control-center

Hello, I installed gnome-shell + gnome-control-center and weird application called "lstopo" ships with those packages. Few months ago nothing like this happened. How can I remove that?

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eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: Weird dependency for gnome-control-center

$ pactree -s gnome-control-center
[...]
├─cheese
│ ├─gtk3
│ ├─gstreamer
│ ├─gst-plugins-bad
│ │ ├─gst-plugins-bad-libs provides gst-plugins-bad-libs=1.16.2
[...]
│ │ ├─libofa
│ │ │ ├─expat
│ │ │ ├─curl
│ │ │ └─fftw
│ │ │   ├─bash
[...]
│ │ │   └─openmpi
│ │ │     ├─libtool provides libltdl
│ │ │     ├─hwloc
[...]

And hwloc provides lstopo. Is this a problem?

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samoloth

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Registered: 2019-09-11

Posts: 18

Re: Weird dependency for gnome-control-center

Thanks, but I don't understand why they've added this as a dependency. I like minimalism, so it's a problem for me.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,337

Re: Weird dependency for gnome-control-center

Gnome and "I like minimalism (in terms of package count and dependencies)" are inherently contradictory statements. That dependency was added because gnome-control-center depends on cheese  and would cease to function or lack functionality.

However as people think similarly in this aspect you can also opt for: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnom … r-nocheese

samoloth

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Registered: 2019-09-11

Posts: 18

Re: Weird dependency for gnome-control-center

That looks promising. I'll check this solution.

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samoloth

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Registered: 2019-09-11

Posts: 18

Re: Weird dependency for gnome-control-center

Package gnome-control-center-nocheese works like a charm. It should be added to main repository. Thanks!

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