Ditto for RHEL5 beta2. Seems rather unnecessary for a server without X. I tried to install ImageMagick-perl (and ImageMagick) and it wanted to install 50 packages in total. Trying to install just librsvg2 pulls in 29 packages. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #212478 +++ I was about to upgrade a trimmed-down, headless FC5 PVR box to FC6, and noticed that the upgrade wanted to pull in lots of GNOME related things. I need ImageMagick on that box, and it turns out that the almost-certain culprit is the librsvg2 support/dependency in it which has been added in FC6. ImageMagick seems to have some internal practically dependencyless SVG support, but when librsvg2 support is additionally built in, it seems to result in these packages recursively being pulled in in my setup which I have no need for and which were not required in FC5: GConf2 ORBit2 audiofile avahi avahi-glib dbus-python esound gamin gnome-keyring gnome-mime-data gnome-mount gnome-vfs2 libIDL libXres libart_lgpl libbonobo libcroco libdaemon libglade2 libgnome libgnomecanvas libgnomeui libgsf libnotify librsvg2 libutempter libwnck libxslt notification-daemon startup-notification There might be some false positives in that list, but most of them seem to be directly caused by librsvg2. I don't know what building ImageMagick with it is needed for, but the amount of inflicted dependencies (~30 packages) sure feels excessive to me...
Actually, the problem could be blamed instead on librsvg2, which requires gnome-vfs2 - If I install gnome-vfs2, that pulls in 26 packages. I am going to change the component of this bug report to librsvg2.
Created attachment 149658 [details] spec file changes to not require gnome-vfs Here's a patch of changes to the specfile that removes the gnome-vfs requirement. I don't know if it breaks anything else that requires librsvg2 - I'll leave that up to you to check that.
The patch was for the rawhide version - Maybe the bug should be cloned to rawhide? I will leave that up to you, as I am not sure if the change is ok or not.
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Fixed in EL6.