| Summary: | kmail (and other) calls for heavy dependencies while they are not needed | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) <falco> |
| Component: | [OLD] KDE | Assignee: | Gentoo KDE team <kde> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 2006.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
obviously, same for konqueror too. kdebase-kioslaves : kmail wants kdebase-kioslaves that wants kdialog that wants sys-apps/eject ... :(( i usually delete the kde-base/kdialog RDEPEND in kdebase-kioslaves.ebuild too cheers (In reply to comment #0) > $(deprange-dual $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kcontrol)" # for the > "looknfeel" icon, and probably others. > > which is responsible for installing many dependencies. > > Is this dependency really needed ? Yes - users will miss this stuff and have no clue why. I'm not quite sure how many files are affected, but if you want to see a change, identify them and convice kde.org to install them as e.g. kdebase/ressources/, instead with KControl. This would lower the dependency to this new target for us. But we're not striving to do a lot of dependency reordering and complicating ebuilds, raising our maintenance workload. Regarding kdebase-kioslaves, KMail uses the pop3 and smtp io slaves and kdialog is for sure needed. |
hi, i use kmail, knode, and a few other kde apps, but i don't want to install kcontrol and the other big stuff of KDE. That's why i delete the following line from each ebuild of kmail : $(deprange-dual $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kcontrol)" # for the "looknfeel" icon, and probably others. which is responsible for installing many dependencies. Is this dependency really needed ? On my computers, kmail, knode, and konqueror... run correctly without it. cheers,