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FS#36745 - [gtk3] unnecessary dependency on colord

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Philipp (hollunder) - Friday, 30 August 2013, 21:24 GMT
Last edited by Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion) - Friday, 30 May 2014, 14:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
The dependency on colord is not necessary and only a fraction of gtk programs actually use this thing. Colord has its own rats tail of dependencies, among them polkit and others that are not required by gtk.

I don't think anyone can argue that having more things than necessary installed is 'a good thing'™, so I would very much like to see unnecessary dependencies gone.

Gtk3 build just fine without colord, maybe it's possible to have colord as an optdepend and have the programs actually using colord depend on colord?

Additional info:
* package version(s)
gtk3-3.8.4-1

Steps to reproduce:
Try to install gtk3 on a slim system or use some tool to see the dependency graph.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Bartłomiej Piotrowski (Barthalion)
Friday, 30 May 2014, 14:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#31679 
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 30 August 2013, 21:57 GMT
AFAIK, it can not be an optional dependency if support is compiled in. You can rebuild gtk3 with ABS if you do not want it.
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Friday, 30 August 2013, 22:09 GMT
There already is https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31679

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