FS#36960 - [claws-mail] Unnecessary dependency on pilot-link
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Opened by Philipp (hollunder) - Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 01:26 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 13 October 2013, 09:20 GMT
Opened by Philipp (hollunder) - Tuesday, 17 September 2013, 01:26 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 13 October 2013, 09:20 GMT
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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 |
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Closed by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 13 October 2013, 09:20 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: 3.9.2-4
Sunday, 13 October 2013, 09:20 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: 3.9.2-4
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.