[Mageia-dev] painful discussion n°1: debloating

Tue Apr 10 09:29:56 CEST 2012

2012/4/7 Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com>:
+> If thos of you lucky enough to have missed the beginning of the story, here
+> are the importants parts:
+> - first round: bug #4357, still marked as release blocker (despite a bit
+> excessive IMHO)
+> - second round: discussion on -dev, archived here:
+> https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-March/013342.html
+>
+> The whole issue turns around the unfortunate consequence of adding new
+> dependencies, for various reasons, between packages and in installer:
+> bloated minimal installation. In this case, this is about a specific *soft*
+> dependency from gnome-keyring to seahorse, which has painful consequences,
+> as outline by TV in comment #5 of the original report.
+>
+> Suggestion sofar for this initial problem have been suggested:
+> 1) move the gnome-keyring -> seahorse soft dependency either in task-gnome,
+> or task-gnome-minimal
+> 2) turn the mandatory dependency between libgnome-keyring to gnome-keyring
+> into a soft dependency
+> - Olav (or anyone else), do you have any objection to *also* move the soft
+> dependency from gnome-keyring to seahorse to either task-gnome or
+> task-gnome-minimal ?
+>
+I've made the changes of 1) and 2) locally:
+- remove Suggests: seahorse in gnome-keyring
+- add Suggests: seahorse in task-gnome-minimal
+- change Requires: gnome-keyring in libgnome-keyring to Suggests
+
+If there's no objection, I would like to commit to svn and someone can
+submit it before beta3. We can test it and decide to keep or revert it
+before RC.
+
+Thanks.
+