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

Thu Mar 29 19:33:36 CEST 2012

Luc Menut <lmenut at ...> writes:
+> Le 28/03/2012 18:40, David Walser a écrit :
+> [...]
+> >
+> > I'm not 100% sure, but I think at least some of the reason all kinds of extra
+> > stuff gets pulled in is because Default-kde4-config and
+> > mageia-kde4-config-common both have added dependencies on plasma applets
+> > (plasma-applet-icontasks and plasma-applet-battery, respectively),
+> 
+> kdm requires some config files provided by kde4-config-file, that's mean 
+> either Default-kde4-config, vanilla-kde4-config or netbook-kde4-config.
+>   urpmq --requires kdm
+>     kdebase4-runtime
+>     kde4-config-file[>= 2]
+>     [...]
+>   urpmq --whatprovides kde4-config-file
+>     vanilla-kde4-config|Default-kde4-config|netbook-kde4-config
+> 
+> so, you can use vanilla-kde4-config instead of Default-kde4-config, and 
+> you will remove the requires on plasma-applet-icontasks and all its 
+> dependencies.
+> 
+> As previously said by John and Thierry, logs could help a lot to narrow 
+> an eventually wrong requires.
+> 
+> btw, on a server, perhaps you could replace kdm by a lighter login manager.
+> 
+> regards,
+> Luc
+
+Thanks Luc.  Installing vanilla-kde4-config allows kdebase4-workspace to be
+removed.  So basically ark/konsole/kdm require libkdecore5, which requires
+kde4-config-file, and the packages that satisfy that dependency require a ton
+of stuff, especially Default-kde4-config, which requires a lot more than it
+did in Mageia 1.  It shouldn't be terribly difficult to suss this out, just
+by testing uninstalling the KDE packages and then installing one of the config
+packages and seeing what it pulls in.
+
+If you still think you need anything from me, let me know, but I don't see that
+you will.  Just a note to tv, I did the upgrade with the installer and not
+urpmi, so I don't have urpmi logs but I do have drakx logs.
+
+