[DEP-BLOAT] My favourite one...

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Aug 23 11:54:12 UTC 2006


Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> Let's say you want to use a graphical CVS/SVN frontend. There is
> choice, but you like cervisia:
> 
> yum install cervisia
> [snip]
> No Match for argument: cervisia
> Nothing to do
> 
> mmm no luck. Looking better you find it in kdesdk so:
> 
> yum install kdesdk
> [snip]
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
> 
> Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> 
> Installing:
> kdesdk                  i386       3.5.4-0.1.fc5    updates           6.5 M
> Installing for dependencies:
> arts                    i386       8:1.5.4-0.1.fc5  updates           1.1 M
> kdebase                 i386       6:3.5.4-0.2.fc5  updates            28 M
> kdebindings             i386       3.5.4-0.1.fc5    updates           5.7 M
> kdelibs                 i386       6:3.5.4-0.1.fc5  updates            18 M
> ruby                    i386       1.8.4-8.fc5      updates           254 k

kdelibs (arts) are legit.  Pulling in all of kdebindings (and then
kdebase, ruby) is overkill.

-- Rex




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