Bug 175650
| Summary: | Evince has unreasonable package dependencies | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Tethys <sta040> |
| Component: | evince | Assignee: | Kristian Høgsberg <krh> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | evince-0.6.0-6.fc6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-01-22 20:20:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Tethys
2005-12-13 17:48:55 UTC
The Nautilus BR is needed for the property page info support (Document tab) in Nautilus. I'm pretty sure it's also needed for the thumbnail generation in Nautilus (though I'm 100% sure of that, since I haven't looked through the code for that). Nautilus-cd-burner is a requirement of Nautilus. I question if this is really a bug, since Evince is a part of GNOME and meant to be used in conjuction with the GNOME desktop (which Nautilus is an integral part). Hang on... you're claiming that Nautilus is needed to support some action the user might want to take in Nautilus? Now perhaps that would be an argument for making Evince a dependency of Nautilus, but not vice versa. Put it this way... what do I, as an end user, gain from having Nautilus installed when using Evince to view a PostScript document? What does it provide that's essential? If it's just some extra niceties somewhere (and I can't find them if it does), then it's not a dependency. If it's something that stops Evince from working at all, then it should be a dependency. But I can't see it myself. Evince is part of GNOME, you say? Then it's a regression, and hence still a bug. Fedora used to provide a means of viewing PostScript without requiring a GNOME desktop. If it now doesn't, that's a major flaw. Evince was touted as a replacement for gv/ggv, and from what I can see, it's not fulfilling that role very well. This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks. Yep, looks like this is now fixed. Sadly, it seems it was only fixed by me raising it as an issue in Max Spevack's interview on on Slashdot, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bug 201967 was filed as a direct result of that question: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-August/msg00153.html and was fixed a day later. Still, at least it's now fixed. I just wish that it hadn't needed such drastic measures to fix it. It sat around for 6 months being ignored, and a Slashdot interview doesn't come up every time you need something fixed. It's symptomatic of wider problems in the Fedora world that nobody seems interested in fixing. But like I said, at least this bug is now fixed... |