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FS#36960 - [claws-mail] Unnecessary dependency on pilot-link

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Philipp (hollunder) - Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 01:26 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 13 October 2013, 09:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I somewhat wonder why my mail program absolutely depends on pilot link, "A suite of tools for connecting to PalmOS handheld devices". It has lots of mail related stuff as optional dependencies, why the hell does it NEED libraries to talk to smeggin' PalmOS?

This is a duplicate of: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32871
However, I don't think it's a good policy to have packages depend on as many things as possible, I rather think packages should depend on as few things as possible. Optdepends are fine, and there's also ABS.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
claws-mail-3.9.2-3

* config and/or log files etc.
$ sudo pacman -Rcs pilot-link
checking dependencies...
Packages (4): bluez-libs-5.8-1 claws-mail-3.9.2-3 libetpan-1.1-4 pilot-link-0.12.5-5
This task depends upon

Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 13 October 2013, 09:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  3.9.2-4
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 19:58 GMT
pilot-link depends only on these packages: readline>=6.0 libpng>=1.6.0 libusb-compat popt bluez-libs.

I don't think that blows up your installation. You can still use abs to disable palm support.

But I take this as a feature drop request and nowadays I somewhat agree that we can drop palm support. I may drop it in the next
update.
Comment by Jens Adam (byte) - Saturday, 21 September 2013, 00:44 GMT
I haven't used my Palm-compatible Handspring Visor in ~10 years now, in contrast to Claws which I use daily, so I'm okay with this.

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