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

Thu Mar 29 00:30:55 CEST 2012

2012/3/28 David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com>:
+[...]
+>
+> Then why not have the package that contains the panel require it?
+That's already the case.
+default-config provides the configuration for the default mageia panel
+which is using icontasks plasmoid.
+For the record the panel is just a configuration file & to be more
+precise we're now using the .js configuration since global use of
+plasmarc files are dead upstream (i personally think this drop happens
+quite lately in kde 4.8 but that's another point).
+>  How about
+> putting the requires into kdebase4-workspace?
+Why should we add this requires on kde-workspace ?
+kde-workspace does not need icontasks to work, also what about the
+user simply using the vanilla-config file (aka default's upstream
+configuration).
+
+> Again, I'm not 100% sure this is
+> why all the extra stuff got installed on upgrade, so it's just a thought.
+Without logs there is nothing we can do here (not to mention that
+currently only Luc is  active since i'm more the man talking with
+email without box to test/apply/upgrade :/ )
+
+> 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.
+Providing some logs here could help a lot to narrow an eventually
+wrong requires.
+So you should probably open at least one bug report against kdm with
+log because we can of course miss something during our work to
+clean/fix some issues inside kde's packaging between mga1 & mga2 (from
+what i understand you want to only use kdm , ark, konsole) and add as
+cc at least luc, juancho and me.
+
+
+-- 
+Balcaen John
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