[Assist] Conflicts between your-privacy and gdm and kde

[Ramana Kumar]

As a very happy user of no desktop environment, I recommend option 3 :)
I use X, xmonad, and dmenu, and get by pretty well.


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Heather Kelly <heather at slac.stanford.edu>wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Jorge Araya Navarro (Shackra Sislock) <
> shackra at riseup.net> wrote:
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>> El mié, 25-09-2013 a las 02:17 -0400, Heather Kelly escribió:
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>> Hi,
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>> This is my first parabola installation.  I've installed the non-prism
>> "your-privacy" package.  Now I'm attempting to install Gnome or KDE,
>> however both end in conflicts with your-privacy.  While I could just remove
>> your-privacy, I'd like to see if there is a workaround.  Both of the
>> conflicts do appear in the blacklist:
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>> https://projects.parabolagnulinux.org/blacklist.git/tree/your-privacy-blacklist.txt
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>>  When trying to install gdm via "pacmac -S gdm", pacman ends with a
>> conflict between libgdata and your-privacy.
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>>  Next I tried kde and that end in conflicts between libkfapi and
>> your-privacy.  I tried to whittle down what KDE meta package was causing
>> this, and it seems to be kde-meta-kdebase.  Poking around I see that
>> libkfapi is associated with Facebook, so I understand the desire to avoid
>> it - I'm just not sure how to install KDE without it being included.
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>>  Has anyone else run into a similar issue?
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>> Take care,
>> Heather
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>> I feel like this is something about re-packaging/creating *-nonprism
>> package more than something you can do from/on your machine...
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>>   --
>> *Pax et bonum.*
>> Jorge Araya Navarro.
>> Diseñador publicitario, programador Python/C++ y colaborador en Parabola
>> GNU/Linux-libre.
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> In the light of day, I think I have three choices:
> 1. Drop non-prism and go on with installation of Gnome or KDE
> 2. Try building from source those parts of Gnome (gdm) or KDE that include
> bits that non-prism objects to
> 3. Try another desktop environment
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> I might go the easy route and drop non-prism :)  but we'll see!
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> Take care,
> Heather
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