How to prevent gam_server from running?

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012, at 03:44, Nikola Pavlović wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:57:38PM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which
> > desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem
> > to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and
> > once this thing is started, there's no stopping it.
> > 
> 
> PolicyKit is like that too. :)
> 
> > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it.  I
> > can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from.  Whether
> > it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool
> > somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it!  :-)
> 
> It's not just desktop environments, a huge amount of 'normal' ports
> depend on
> it.  I'm running a bare bones window manager and can't get rid of it.
> At first I thought polkit and gam_server were some kind of leftovers
> from a couple of months long experiment with KDE4, but after I made sure
> every last bit of KDE was gone from the system (it was like trying
> to kill those packs of core hounds in Molten Core[1]; older WoW players
> will appreciate the analogy) and tired to remove them, this is what I
> got (and still get; some of the more amusing dependants marked):

 Hmm, maybe glib20/_glib20 is wrongly used in Mk/bsd.gnome.mk and/or the port Makefiles. e.g: accessibility/atk, devel/gobject-introspection and graphics/cairo list glib20 (instead of _glib20) in USE_GNOME. So you can't even install accessibility/atk without devel/gamin. :-( 

-- 
Herbert