Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 198969
Wine dependencies... pretty much all packages.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:37 EST
Description of problem: Updating to either wine-0.9.16 or 0.9.17 results in installation of pretty much all other wine packages added as dependencies. Attempting to install wine-0.9.17 only will result in additional packages as dependencies, pretty much every other package with the exception of wine-arts, the follwing will be added deps for the wine package:wine-nas-0.9.17-1.fc5 wine-twain-0.9.17-1.fc5 wine-cms-0.9.17-1.fc5 wine-core-0.9.17-1.fc5 wine-capi-0.9.17-1.fc5 wine-jack-0.9.17-1.fc5 wine-esd-0.9.17-1.fc5 wine-ldap-0.9.17-1.fc5 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.16 and 0.9.17 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. If you have wine installed, remove it. 2. Launch pirut and try to install only the package wine-0.9.17 3. All the other packages will be marked as dependencies. Actual results: The other packages are added as dependencies when only the wine package is set to be installed. Expected results: If the package was split into several other packages, one expects that these are optional and you wouldn't require them to run the main package, as it wouldn't make sense to have several packages to install a single packate, instead of having that package as one monolithic one. Additional info: I have not looked into it yet, but I'd suspect that the Requires declarations of the .spec should be cleaned up.
The package is just fine. Please _read_ the description: (rpm -qi wine) [...] In Fedora Extras wine is actually a meta-package which will install everything you need for wine to work smoothly. If you don't want to install everything take a look at the wine-* packages. So if you don't want the dependencies just don't install the meta package for the dependencies.
It actually came as a surprise, as when I installed wine, I got to choose the packages I wanted in Pirut. Then all of a sudden in an update, it added all the dependencies and installed them. My guess is that the actual wine (as referenced before) package is wine-core, so only wine-core is really needed, and the other files provide their descriptive functionality (jack, ldap, cms, esd, etc). The fact that from one update to the next this was the behavior is what made me post this as a bug, but I guess there was no easy way to bosolet the previous one. Thanks for the clarification, though.
No problem and I am sorry that it went this way for you. I tested it here locally a lot and it worked not pulling in the 'new' wine.
At least I know now how to install it again for when 0.9.18 is released. Thanks again for your reply, most appreciated.