[Mageia-dev] weird dependencies that i've seen

Fri Jan 4 18:45:14 CET 2013

i completely understand your point, i'm not saying these are packaging 
+mistakes at all.
+
+but for something qt, it doesn't make much sense to have gnome-keyring code, 
+except for when there would be kwallet and gnome-keyring plugins.
+
+1. this more that xscreensaver requires chbg (does kscreensaver use this part? 
+if not, maybe xscreensaver can be packaged separately), or chbg requires gtk+ 
+code (maybe recode would be better to be gtk/qt independant)
+
+6. about gwenview, does it actually use these kipi-plugins all the time? does 
+it use all of them, or just some kipi-plugins (if they are available). if 
+latter, it might be better to suggest the specific ones alone, instead of all 
+of them.
+
+2, i understand for skype, but it's quite the dirty solution, perhaps a getter 
+with requirements is better than just having everyone installing 32deps...
+
+
+this indeed is a list of links that exist that i found odd, since they could 
+be more abstract written and thus not directly link to each other.
+
+
+Op vrijdag 4 januari 2013 18:30:35 schreef nicolas.lecureuil at free.fr:
+> i have not answered to all, but nothing weird at all for me here, except if
+> you want to recode all to remove  the deps you don't like.
+> 
+> 1- xscreensaver is needed by kscreensaver, so nothing weird on the packaging
+> side. 2- this is needed for skype, if we don't this will not work this is
+> needed. 3- Because the code doesn't use phonon but gstreamer, complain to
+> qtwebkit devs. ( i think i don't tell mistakes here ) 6- gwenview can use
+> kipi-plugins so this is a suggests, this is not weird at all, this just
+> show you write about stuff you don't know and softs you don't use ;) 7- hum
+> this is normal.
+> 8- this is normal this is to help to migrate windows accounts, so this is
+> completly normal
+> 
+> ----- Mail original -----
+> De: "AL13N" <alien at rmail.be>
+> À: mageia-dev at mageia.org
+> Envoyé: Vendredi 4 Janvier 2013 17:49:08
+> Objet: [Mageia-dev] weird dependencies that i've seen
+> 
+> 1. KDE requires gtk+
+> 2. pulseaudio suggests it's i586 counterparts (plz don't)
+> 3. qtwebkit requires gstreamer (not phonon)
+> 4. KDE requires packagekit
+> 5. hugin requires make
+> 6. kipi-plugins suggested by gwenview
+> 7. system-config-printer pulls in quite some gnome
+> 8. transfugdrake required by userdrake
+> 9. qtwebkit requires gnome-keyring
+> 
+> 1. kdeartwork requires xscreensaver, which requires chgb, which requires
+> gtk+ 2. in spec file, requested for closed source 3rd party binaries that
+> are 32bit 3. libqtwebkit requires gstreamer directly... why not phonon
+> 4. libqtwebkit requires also gst-install-plugin-helper and requires
+> packagekit 5. hugin directly requires make... why would a gui require a
+> buildtool? 6. gwenview really uses all kipi-plugins?
+> 7. gnome-icon-theme,gnome-python,gnome-python-gnomekeyring _required_ by
+> s-c-p system-config-printer MUST have a gnome keyring? that would be odd...
+> 8. transfugdrake required by userdrake... odd
+> 9. qtwebkit requires soup, requires lib64gnome-keyring, suggests
+> gnome-keyring
+