kdeaddons requires kdemultimedia-extras

[Michael Schwendt]

On 04/07/07, lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 04:29:08 pm Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On 04/07/07, lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> wrote:
> > >   Hello
> > >  I am curious to know as to why kdeaddons requires kdemultimedia-extras
> > > as a dependency ? This seems kind of odd to me. Now I have juk and all
> > > these other apps I really don't need or want. I take these 2 packages are
> > > linked somehow but why and what for ?
> >
> > There is no such dependency in the kdeaddons.spec file. What binary
> > rpm do you refer to? And where does it come from?
> >
> > $ grep extr kdeaddons.spec
> > %package extras
> > %description extras
> > %post extras
> > %postun extras
> > %files extras
> > - kde* package splitting in -extras
>
>  I am referring to kdeaddons - 3.5.6-4.fc7 I installed it this morning and it
> pulled in kdemultimedia-extras as a dependency. I was wanting to have the
> google search box in konqueror as I use konqueror as my web browser. and the
> kdemultimedia-extras package it pulled it is 3.5.6-7. These came straight out
> of yum as i did a yum install kdeaddons.

Ah, I see. Sub-package-bloat-confusion. kdeaddons.spec BuildRequires
kdemultimedia-devel, which due to the sub-package split leads to
"noatun" related files in kdeaddons depending on noatun libraries in
kdemultimedia-extras.