On Wednesday 04 July 2007 05:33:11 pm Michael Schwendt wrote: > On 04/07/07, lostson <lostson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 04:29:08 pm Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > On 04/07/07, lostson <lostson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. good 'ol rpm hell weird how they tie all that together. -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org
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