More strange F9 dependencies

[Robin Laing]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:43:17 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth wrote:
> 
>> 	I have no PDA, nor expect ever to, much less hardware to connect 
>> it to a PC.
>>
>> 	When I was working, and literally running my life on rails, its 
>> ancestors, then called organizers, were fine things; I had a whole series 
>> of them. 

SNIP

>> 	Some of those dependencies certainly make sense, and others look 
>> likely to. Some of them. I grant that.
>>
>> 	Some make mud seem clear. I don't understand, despite googling, 
>> what gvfs is or does. I know only that it too threatened to take a long 
>> list of indispensable apps with it if removed -- and that the gnome 
>> system monitor always shows some half dozen of its creatures, sleeping.
>>
>> 	But what of nautilus? It would be fine for bluez to depend on it; 
>> but why should it depend on bluez?? Is someone going to tell me that 
>> pango uses bluez, with or without hardware? And then sneer down his nose 
>> that I'm welcome to write new code??
> 
> Run: repoquery --whatrequires libbluetooth.so.2
> 
> That shows all packages with a _direct_ dependency on that library.
> Nautilus depends on something that depends on bluez-libs.
> 
>> 	What ever became of linux being tailorable??
> 
> A Linux base distribution is tailored already.
> Not each and every feature can be toggled on/off at run-time or
> install-time. Some features build the core of the distribution.
> 

The issue that is creeping in is dependencies on full packages that are 
not needed.  Bluetooth is an option for many and shouldn't be needed to 
keep a system operational.

If a library is needed for some function, then pull the library out of 
the full application.  In this case make a base library to meet these 
dependencies.

-- 
Robin Laing