FS#1865 - GNOME libs dependencies

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318) - Wednesday, 01 December 2004, 20:21 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Thursday, 23 December 2004, 13:00 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Here is quite a problem. GNOME has quite a mess of dependencies, but there might be something we can do about it. Let's say I have no GNOME libs installed, and I want the program gthumb. The dependencies are: All the gnome libs (which is understandable), cups, and samba. CUPS and samba shouldn't be dependencies. The KDE packages have it down right. They're built with samba support, but it's not required. GNOME should be the same way: There's no reason I would need CUPS and Samba just to run gthumb. I might not be connected to a Windows server or a printer! Is there any way that these dependencies could be removed?
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Sunday, 26 December 2004, 13:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  well it seems this one is a goner too :)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 01 December 2004, 23:10 GMT
I think we should work on a split up samba that has smbclient and samba. This way smbclient won't require cups and openldap anymore and we can make the dependency tree smaller.
We're already working on these things for gst-plugins in testing. Installing gnome would require like 50MB of additional codecs, just because you wanted a battery applet on your panel, which comes with the same package that also has the volume applet and thus depends on all gstreamer plugins...
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Thursday, 23 December 2004, 12:59 GMT
In our work to make the depency chain less big, I have removed the support for samba and cups in testing.
there are 2 new packages in testing gnome-vfs-samba and libgnomeprint-cups.
If you want you samba or cups support back in gnome you will need to install these packages.
Please test them so it can go bug free into extra.

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