Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 137935
Please remove dependency of rhpl on synaptics! Up2date should not depend on xorg-x11-libs.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:53 EST
Description of problem: By requiring synaptics, rhpl requires xorg-x11-libs and xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL. Those in turn require other packages, so that in reality up2date (which requires rhpl) cannot be installed without also being forced to install another 16MB of graphical packages. This seriously bloats a minimal install and is causing problems for us in lower-end hardware. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC3 Release Candidate 5 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to remove xorg* and find that synaptics requires it. 2. Attempt to remove synaptics and find that rhpl requires it. 3. Attempt to remove rhpl and find that up2date requires it. 4. 16MB of cruft cannot be removed unless one also removes up2date. Actual results: Expected results: Ideally, rhpl should not *require* the synaptics driver. I mean, how many systems actually have this touchpad? Should *everyone* have to install that driver just to use up2date? Additional info: Given that we (in RULE Project, www.rule-project.org) are installing hundreds of P/100 to P/200 machines with 500MB or 1GB hard drives or less in African, European, and Latin American schools, an extra helping of nearly 20MB of stuff is a *MAJOR* problem. We would like to keep up2date, but cannot keep so much extra stuff which seems totally unnecessary. Please help us keep a minimal install actually "minimal" without sacrificing functionality for any Fedora users, either on modern or ancient hardware. Make rhpl *not* require synaptics. Thanks!
yeah, this is really annoying. rhpl means redhat-python-library and not metaconfigtoolpackage...
rhpl 0.150-1 has removed this
May I ask when rhpl-0.150-1 will be pushed out as an update to FC3-stable? Thanks.
I wasn't planning on doing this, it'll just be fixed in FC4
Is there any chance the synaptics dependency will at least be removed for RHEL 4, then?
Oh no... come on, Paul, pleeeeeeeease? Think of the 2,500 people/month who read and use my HOWTO, and who will thank you each time for making their lives easier. Think of the space (and the download bandwidth) saved from future patches and updates. Think of the boundless gratitude, the joy... the opportunity to mark a bug as CLOSED!!! Please, pretty please? This one update will save the RULE project a boatload of time, space, and packages. I don't know of any other way to get rid of those extra packages, and I alone run about 50 computers on such minimal installs. A few other people I know directly add up to about 2,000 computers, and they are trying to move from RHL-9 to FC3 (currently testing their installer already). I know all this is a drop in the bucket to the many many thousands of Fedora users out there, but I'm trying to get some sympathy here. <grin> Say yes, will ya?
built for RHEL-4, I'll push an FC update later in the week.
You da man! I'll test the update and close the bug ASAP.
I don't mean to nag, but is that update going to be released soon? Thanks!
rhpl-0.148.1-2
Thank you!