Bug 453005

Summary: pm-utils has unnecessary Requires on kbd
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Lalancette <clalance>
Component: pm-utilsAssignee: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Patch to remove unnecessary kbd dependency from pm-utils none

Description Chris Lalancette 2008-06-26 15:41:29 UTC 
Description of problem:
As part of oVirt (http://ovirt.org), we need to use hal on our embedded node
image.  The hal package pulls in pm-utils, which pulls in the kbd package. 
However, it looks like based on the ChangeLog in the top level of the source tree:

    remove sysfont wrapper call. no other distro from fedora uses it
    
    On Jan 28, 2008 11:31 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists> wrote:
    > On Jan 27, 2008 9:42 PM, Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov> wrote:
    > > Gentoo does not have this utilities. Default gentoo init script that
    > > setting console font executes /bin/setfont
    >
    > That's because setsysfont is a Fedora specific wrapper script around
    > setfont in their initscripts package.
    >
    >
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/initscripts/initscripts-8.60.tar.bz2/a0e888cc91ef6350a991985567d21366/initscripts-8.60.tar.bz2
    
    In that case...
    
    Patch attached to remove 60sysfont.  setsysfont is Fedora-specific,

So I think the kbd dependency is no longer needed for pm-utils.  This will save
us 2MB of disk-space, which is important since we are trying to keep the
compressed size of the node < 64MB.

Attached is a simple spec file patch to do just this.
Comment 1 Chris Lalancette 2008-06-26 15:41:29 UTC 
Created attachment 310345 [details]
Patch to remove unnecessary kbd dependency from pm-utils
Comment 2 Till Maas 2008-06-26 16:17:35 UTC 
pm-utils uses chvt, which is in kbd, therefore the dependency is still needed.
Maybe you can get chvt seperated from kbd, but currently I do not see a way to
get rid of the kbd dependency.
Comment 3 Till Maas 2008-07-02 08:21:47 UTC 
Maybe the usage of chvt in pm-utils will be removed by upstream soon, when this
happens and the version hits Fedora, the kbd dependency will be dropped.