Excessive package interdependency

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> What I find funny is that it automatic dependency tracking has been
> disabled for the redhat-artwork package:
> 
>   $ rpm -q --requires  redhat-artwork 
>   redhat-logos >= 1.1.10
>   /usr/lib/qt-3.1  
>   rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
>   rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
> 
> The bluecurve.so files depend on *many* libraries
> 
>   $ ldd /usr/lib/qt-3.1/plugins/styles/bluecurve.so | wc -l
>      25
> 
> and would pull in many components (libjpeg, libpng, zlib, GL, X,
> freetype, libmng, Qt, C++, ...).

That package is a serious issue, dependency-wise. See #101439 for more fun 
with it

later,
chris