FS#4540 - inkscape should not depend on loudmouth

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Sunday, 30 April 2006, 00:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The inkscape package depends on loudmouth, but Loudmouth is a jabber client... Has nothing at all to do with Inkscape. I'm pretty sure this is an erroneous dependency.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 30 April 2006, 09:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 30 April 2006, 09:38 GMT
[jan@server ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/inkscape | grep loud
libloudmouth-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libloudmouth-1.so.0 (0xb71fa000)

Looks like it is required in the package, but I'd like to know where it is used for and what it breaks when compiling without loudmouth support...
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 30 April 2006, 09:43 GMT
It's used by the inkboard function in inkscape:
Inkboard is the name for the network capable whiteboard extension for the Inkscape SVG program, written by a student team at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The aim of Inkboard is to allow real-time sharing, collaboration and editing of Inkscape documents.

This is a feature that is wanted by a specific group of users, but not everyone. As loudmouth is a 88K library (installed size) and pulls in GNUTLS, which is shared between many applications, my choice would be to keep loudmouth in as dependency.

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