Bug 61098

Summary:	Too many gnome requirements
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Component:	redhat-config-network	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	jrb
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Description Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-03-13 16:02:50 UTC

Description of Problem:
Installing redhat-config-network requires to install virtually all gnome
libraries, including even gnome-core.

The panel applet should move to a separate package to avoid this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.9.13-1

How Reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to install the package on a KDE workstation without installing 20 GB
worth of gnome stuff you don't want to use

Actual Results:
Fails

Expected Results:
Base config tools shouldn't require all gnome libs, and definitely not gnome-core

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-03-28 20:40:03 UTC

There has been a hard package freeze the last couple of weeks... not fixable.

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-04-03 12:43:53 UTC

Suggested fix until the package can be split: 
 
AutoReqProv: no 
 
Gnome users will get the panel applet, KDE users will get the file with a couple of 
unresolved symbols, which doesn't matter, since it doesn't work outside of gnome anyway, 
so nobody will run it in KDE. 
 
Having a base tool depend on gnome-core which in turn depends on sawfish, which in turn 
depends on rep, rep-gtk, guile and other stuff no KDE user will touch is not acceptable.

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-04-04 20:34:31 UTC

Dropping all dependencies to avoid a couple of libraries when using the
secondary desktop seems like a bad idea.

Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-04-04 20:39:57 UTC

Then make it

AutoReqprov: no
Requires: initscripts >= 5.99 usermode alchemist kudzu libglade pygtk-libglade
pygtk python pygnome-libglade pygnome libart_lgpl.so.2 ORBit gtk XFree86 zlib glibc

(The list is complete, I took it from rpm -qp --requires and just substracted
gnome-core and libpanel_applet.so.0, which this is about).

The broken dependency isn't just for one package, it's for one that drags along
dependencies on more than 10 others, and some of them are big.