Bug 428477

Summary:	R Requires evince, cups, firefox?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Joshua Baker-LePain <joshua.bakerlepain>
Component:	R	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Joshua Baker-LePain 2008-01-11 21:52:35 UTC

Description of problem:
I want to install R on several hundred compute nodes in a cluster.  Imagine my
surprise when 'yum install R' wanted to pull in such un-clustery things as
firefox, esound, and half of gnome.  Looking at R.spec, it Requires evince,
cups, and firefox (and thus the dependency cascade begins).  Could this be
removed?  It seems to me that R is primarily a computational package, and
shouldn't be forcing the install of desktop components.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.5.1-2.el5

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  yum install R
2.  
3.
  
Actual results:
Stare in disbelief at the sheer number, size, and identities of packages R wants
to pull in.

Expected results:
R (and not much else) gets installed.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-01-11 22:12:24 UTC

Whoops. I've fixed that in Fedora, I'll move the fixes back to EL-5 now. 

The evince and firefox deps have been replaced with xdg-open (which will open an
appropriate application if present), but won't pull in those dependencies.

Unfortunately, the cups dependency is valid, but it shouldn't bring on too much
pain.

Comment 2 Joshua Baker-LePain 2008-01-11 22:24:47 UTC

Ooh, shiny!  Much thanks, and I look forward to the new packages.

Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-02-19 19:55:56 UTC

2.6.1-1 has these fixes, and is in EPEL (EL-5).