More bad dependencies

[Brent Fox]

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 22:24, John Thacker wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:37:23PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > Excellent, thanks.  I was just looking at this yesterday and then got
> > distracted before really digging into libdv.  New libdv with the patch
> > built and building gstreamer-plugins now.
> 
> Great.  That brings down further the number of gtk+ depending packages.
> I'm aware of:
> 
> mtr-gtk and nmap-frontend, both frontends to terminal network analyzing
> packages, which honestly shouldn't be difficult to port
> 
> system-config-proc, which is a RedHat package

We should consider removing system-config-proc from the distro.  Is it
useful to anybody?


--Brent

> 
> xmms, which has been really slow to even start porting to gtk2, but
> an outside group forked it to a gtk2 version:
> http://beepmp.sourceforge.net
> 
> gnucash, and the host of GNOME1.4 packages that are now only required
> for gnucash.  (gtkhtml1, Guppi, gnome-libs, and a bunch of others
> with interlocking dependencies)  They've been working on a GTK2 and
> GNOME2 port for a while, although they would appreciate any help.
> 
> and various assorted things like gdk-pixbuf and gtk-engines that are
> essentially part of gtk+ itself.
> 
> Many people on the list have talked about removing inessential packages
> and so forth, especially from the default install.  Hopefully soon
> GNOME1.4 and maybe also gtk+ can be removed from the defaults.
> I'd like to nominate it as a goal for FC3, but it really depends on
> gnucash; everything else is probably fairly easy.
> 
> John Thacker
>