[Mageia-dev] KDE requires creep and other minimal installation issues

Thu Mar 29 00:01:58 CEST 2012

John Balcaen <mikala at ...> writes:
+> What is wrong here ?
+> That's the default config *requires* iconstasks package ?
+> As said earlier currently the default config (& not the vanilla one or
+> netbook) use the iconstasks plasmoid, how are you going to ensure that
+> this plasmoid is installed when using the default configuration and
+> then don't have a broken panel for the default mageia panel ? (i'm not
+> sure ennael will be agree to add yet another package in rpmstrate/bcd
+> config just for that when it could be done in the spec )
+> If the problem is that the « default » config package are wrongly
+> required that's something else and we need to narrow here the wrong
+> requires.
+
+Then why not have the package that contains the panel require it?  How about
+putting the requires into kdebase4-workspace?  Again, I'm not 100% sure this is
+why all the extra stuff got installed on upgrade, so it's just a thought.
+
+The bigger problem is now I can't uninstall kdebase4-workspace (which I didn't
+have installed before the upgrade, and which contains the wmsession file to make
+KDE the default window manager and a login option, and pulls in most of the
+remaining dependencies) without it forcing me to uninstall ark,
+kdebase4-runtime, kdelibs4-core, kdm, and konsole, which I did have installed
+before the upgrade and would like to keep.
+
+