I looked closer and this clip art feature[1] that requires gvfs appears to be trying to turn a drawing program into a web browser. The feature should be implemented as an *optional* Inkscape extension.

BTW, in one minute of use I found two networking-related bugs.

[1] It allows users to search the Open Clip Art Library and to import images from it.

This problem may be easier to fix than I thought. In developing a patch to
build Inkscape without gnome-vfs,[1] I found that test builds without
gnome-vfs still support the "Import Clip Art..." functionality, provided
that gvfs and gvfs-client are installed.

Without those packages, clicking on the "Import Clip Art..." search button
produces these errors, but no crashing:

(inkscape:16929): glibmm-CRITICAL **: 
unhandled exception (type Glib::Error) in signal handler:
domain: g-io-error-quark
code  : 15
what  : Operation not supported

NB: When testing, make sure that no gvfs processes are running after removing
the gvfs packages:
# pkill gvfs

[1] Bug 1308311 - [RFE] support builds without gnome-vfs

Right - in version 0.91, we should no longer be depending on gnome-vfs - everything has been ported to gvfs/gio. So, as a first step we can remove dependency on gnome-vfs2. 

However, removing the dependency on gvfs/gio seems like a non-starter to me until there's an upstreamed patch which does run-time checking for those, rather than build time.

(In reply to Jonathan Underwood from comment #3)
...
> However, removing the dependency on gvfs/gio seems like a non-starter to me
> until there's an upstreamed patch which does run-time checking for those,
> rather than build time.

OK. Thanks for opening the upstream bug.[1] What I had in mind as a workaround would be a way to allow gvfs to be removed after Inkscape is installed, but I don't know if there is a way to implement that.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1545737

inkscape.spec already lists some "Weak dependencies":

# Weak dependencies for the LaTeX plugin
Suggests:       pstoedit
...

Users can get the list with these commands:
$ dnf repoquery --suggests inkscape
$ rpm -q --suggests inkscape

Those commands are probably too arcane for most users, but they would document the dependency:

# Weak dependency for Import Clip Art functionality
Suggests:       gvfs

gvfs requires gvfs-client, so gvfs-client probably wouldn't need to be listed.

(In reply to Steve from comment #5)
> # Weak dependency for Import Clip Art functionality
> Suggests:       gvfs
> 
> gvfs requires gvfs-client, so gvfs-client probably wouldn't need to be
> listed.

Yes, I considered this. But I am loathed to do it until the case of gvfs not being present is gracefully handled (by not showing the clipart menu, for example). Otherwise, there'll be bug reports about missing dependencies on gvfs in the future. Weak dependencies are there for non-core functionality, and I think a majority of people would regard clip art as core functionality in inkscape. The weakest I'd feel comfortable with gvfs would be Recommends (once things are handled gracefully).

ps. Clipart functionality, unlike the LaTeX plugin, isn't a plugin - it would be better if it were, then we could split out a inkscape-clipart sub-package.

Perhaps I am missing something, but there is no dependency whatsoever on gvsf with the -23 release in rawhide[1]. That's fine with me, but I am confused about how users will know to install gvfs if they want the clipart functionality.

$ rpm -q inkscape
inkscape-0.91-23.fc23.x86_64
$ rpm -q --requires inkscape | grep gvfs
$ rpm -q gvfs
package gvfs is not installed

NB: I am rebuilding the binary package on F23 and successfully installing it without gvfs[2].

[1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=736097

[2] # dnf history info last
...
Command Line   : install inkscape-0.91-23.fc23.x86_64.rpm
...
Packages Altered:
    Install inkscape-0.91-23.fc23.x86_64            @@commandline
    Install potrace-1.13-2.fc23.x86_64              @updates
    Install python-cssselect-0.9.1-6.fc23.noarch    @fedora
    Install python-lxml-3.4.4-1.fc23.x86_64         @fedora
    Install python-nose-1.3.7-4.fc23.noarch         @fedora
    Install python-reportlab-3.1.8-5.fc23.x86_64    @fedora
    Install uniconvertor-2.0-0.8.svn362.fc23.x86_64 @fedora
    Install numpy-1:1.9.2-2.fc23.x86_64             @fedora

Oh, duh!! I really thought I'd added a Requires for gvfs! OK, that does need fixing.

(In reply to Jonathan Underwood from comment #9)
> Oh, duh!! I really thought I'd added a Requires for gvfs! OK, that does need
> fixing.

Thanks. Now everything makes sense ... :-)

OK on -24:
$ rpm -q --requires -p inkscape-0.91-23.fc23.x86_64.rpm | grep gvfs
$ rpm -q --requires -p inkscape-0.91-24.fc23.x86_64.rpm | grep gvfs
gvfs

For the record, this is a workaround I was asking about in Comment 4:
# dnf install inkscape-0.91-24.fc23.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -ev --nodeps gvfs gvfs-client

The only side-effect that I can see is that the dnf history does not record the removal of gvfs and gvfs-client.

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