Bug 312471

Summary:	hard-dependency on htmlview drags in additional inappropriate deps
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Curtis Doty <curtis>
Component:	pinfo	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	7	CC:	riel, ville.skytta
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Description Curtis Doty 2007-09-29 17:09:22 UTC

In bz#123349, we hard-coded a dependency on the htmlview package. Which in turn
drags in these additional deps:

pinfo
 -> htmlview 
     -> redhat-menus 
         -> desktop-file-utils

But this is inappropriate on minimalist/console-only systems that need no
X11/desktop crap.

One idea would be to create another soft dep called "htmlviewer" (much like lynx
already provides "webclient"). Then of course, both lynx and htmlview (and even
elinks) would have to be rebuilt to provide "htmlviewer".

But this doesn't solve the proper editing of the *VIEWER options /etc/pinforc.
So maybe some sort of alternatives setup is needed? But that seems way to
complex. What is the *VIEWER code really used for anyways and how important is
it to the core pinfo/pman functionality?

Comment 1 Curtis Doty 2007-09-29 17:16:01 UTC

Whoops, proper link to Bug 123349 and adding original author.

Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2007-09-30 21:14:01 UTC

I think it would be good to use xdg-open from xdg-utils.  It offers the same
functionality as htmlview but also groks KDE and XFCE users' settings in
addition to GNOME (and does have a console fallback mode), and doesn't have a
problematic dependency chain.  Also, the default MAILEDITOR could be set to
xdg-email (also in the xdg-utils package).

Comment 3 Curtis Doty 2007-10-02 16:08:15 UTC

xdg-utils solves the redhat-menus dep, but still clings to desktop-file-utils
which is still not appropriate for a non-X11 system.

Comment 4 Ville Skyttä 2007-10-02 16:57:52 UTC

True, but FWIW, in my opinion desktop-file-utils is nothing to worry about, it's
a ~110kB package and the only "extra" dependency in it is glib2 which I don't
think can be realistically removed from a working Fedora setup anyway.

OTOH, I wouldn't object to the dependency being removed altogether - but even
without the dependency, IMO using xdg-utils if it's available would be a better
choice than htmlview.

Comment 5 Miroslav Lichvar 2007-10-03 17:10:28 UTC

Ok, htmlview is replaced with xdg-open and xdg-email in pinfo-0.6.9-5.fc8.

Do you want to have this also in F7 updates? (I'd prefer to not change the
default values this late in F7)