gwenview - Re: Orphaning packages

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sun Aug 23 18:01:21 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 08/23/2009 11:18 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
>> Doubtful. How much will that save? - A typical problem with KDE apps is
>> that not only they pull in some KDE libraries, the KDE packages come with
>> lots of additional KDE-specific dependencies.
>> 
>> Installing:
>>  ktorrent                         i586           3.2.3-1.fc11            
>>   updates                   3.3 M
>> Installing for dependencies:
>>  akonadi                          i586           1.2.0-1.fc11            
>>   updates-testing           682 k
>>  kdebase-workspace                i586           4.3.0-8.fc11            
>>   updates-testing            14 M
>>  kdebase-workspace-libs           i586           4.3.0-8.fc11            
>>   updates-testing           906 k
>>  kdepimlibs-akonadi               i586           4.3.0-2.fc11            
>>   updates-testing           505 k
>>  kdm                              i586           4.3.0-8.fc11            
>>   updates-testing           1.9 M
>>  qt-mysql                         i586           1:4.5.2-2.fc11          
>>   updates                    53 k
> 
> A torrent client requires a display manager and Qt MySQL? Hmm. Something
> wrong with dependencies, here.  I am sure, we can do better.

It grew a dependency on some newer libraries in kdebase-workspace recently, 
probably some prudent sub-packages are in order.

-- Rex




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