RC5: Dependencies everywhere!

[Michael A. Peters]

On 10/30/2004 09:19:00 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
 
> I know the frustration and the feeling! Some months ago I tried to  
> uninstall a small number of web server-related components that came  
> with Fedora Core 2 and it was heck because of a seemingly endless  
> chain of package dependencies. All I wanted to do was to get rid of a  
> small set of packages.  I resorted to rebuilding at least one package  
> where I removed the dependency from it, then installed it as an  
> upgrade. That in turn let me rpm -e a bunch of packages. Not pretty,  
> but it gave me what I wanted. With some packages a little more  
> thought needs to go into deciding what the dependencies really ought  
> to be.

I agree. Often this can be done through sub packages.

I don't use any qt apps.
But because gstreamer-plugins includes an arts plugin, arts is required  
which in turn requires qt.

Not as big of a dependency issue but still - simply making a gstreamer- 
plugins-arts package would mean it would be possible to install a  
system without qt.