Bug 748334

Summary: Need to split libraries into a google-perftools-libs sub-RPM to minimise deps
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Amir Hedayaty <hedayaty>
Component: google-perftoolsAssignee: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: amit.shah, berrange, dougsland, dwmw2, ehabkost, gcosta, itamar, jaswinder, jforbes, knoel, scottt.tw, tcallawa, virt-maint
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Description Amir Hedayaty 2011-10-24 07:35:30 UTC 
This is kind of odd!

qemu depends on a package ceph,
it depends on google-perftools and
that depends on gv??? The old motif bases ps/pdf viewer???!!! How uses gv anymore!

This might be google-perftools bug, but all of these dependencies do not make sense!
Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2011-10-24 08:25:50 UTC 
QEMU uses CEPH as a block storage backend. The CEPH binaries use libtcmalloc.so as a fast malloc implementation. This library is provided by the google-perftools PRM. Unfortunately this RPM also includes a command line program 'pprof' which depends on graphviz/gv.

The result of this is that installing QEMU pulls in graphviz which is really not desirable.

At least the basic /usr/lib64/libtcmalloc.so.0* library which any app might want to link to, should be in a separate  google-perftools-libs sub-RPM to allow its use without pulling in the actual perftools command line tools which are only relevant at dev time.
Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2011-10-24 19:20:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 748145 ***