Bug 855930
| Summary: | kde-runtime too many dependencies (on a GNOME desktop) | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Gerald Pfeifer <gerald> | ||||
| Component: | kde-runtime | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | alekcejk, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, rnovacek, smparrish, than | ||||
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2013-08-01 11:58:41 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
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Note this aspect: Total size: 138 M Total download size: 134 M Installed size: 403 M 400MB are quite heavy. Note most (or all) of what you mention comes from kdelibs/kde-runtime, which is, as the name suggests, a standard set of runtime libraries (and dependencies) that most non-trivial kde applications expect to be present for full functionality. It may indeed come as a bit of a shock if you install but a single kde application (like digikam) on a box that has no kde applications yet. some of the deps you mention are direct digikam dependencies, including: atlas (and libgfortran) That's not to say that kde-runtime couldn't be pruned *some* perhaps, but I'd venture there's not a significant amount fat to trim. Thanks for the background, Rex. I understand the situation in general (I think), but am wondering whether some of the dependencies could be made optional? you'll have to be more specific, if you're asking about making particular items optional. otherwise, in general, that really is the generally accepted minimal runtime for fully-featured kde applications. I'm not so deep in KDE packaging, but some proposals: 1. htdig. I don't have this on my openSUSE system, and Digikam works just fine there, for example. (This comes from kde-runtime.) 2. kdepimlibs. On other distros this is only required for kdepim4-runtime and kopete and I could remove it there when I just tested it (and still have a working Digikam). 3. openslp. 4. atlas. Not present on my openSUSE system, for example. 5. Is the whole perl stack really necessary? I assume these are just some scripts in Digikam using them, not the main app? (Something that could be broken out, as subpackage of Digikam?) openSUSE? 1.. htdig: (used to be?) needed for searching application handbooks, ie, help -> digikam handbook 2. there are several libraries kde-runtime uses from kdepimlibs, either those distros have kde-runtime split somehow or a not-fully-featured kde-runtime. I'll look more into it. 3. openslp is only 130k, not going to worry about that one (not worth it) 4. digikam uses this directly on fedora, instead of clapack 5. yes, kde requires perl Come to think of it, I had been considering making kio-smb support optional (ie, avoid dragging in libsmbclient and friends) I looked at things closer: 1. htdig could be made optional (ie, installed by default, but not required via hard depenencies) 2. looks like KDEPIMLIBS_KXMLRPCCLIENT_LIBRARY is pulled in only for drkonqi, so I'll consider packaging drkonqi in a subpkg (and treat it similarly as htdig above). this is probably what your "other" distros have done. 3. investigate implications of packaging kio-smb separately as well. This message is a reminder that Fedora 17 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 17. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '17'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 17 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 17's end of life. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. I can confirm that htdig no longer is hard dependency. Thanks! Rex, can you indicate whether you or others made other changes and then close this as RESOLVED? Or are there steps you'll still want to take? Fedora 17 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-07-30. Fedora 17 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Created attachment 611484 [details] Output of yum install digikam Description of problem: Running a GNOME desktop, I added digikam to a system of mine. What I found is that digikam also pulls in - atlas (a math library), - perl, - htdig (a full search engine), - libgfortran, - openslp, - udisks and many others. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): digikam-2.7.0-1.fc17 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install digikam 2. Observe the output (also attached)