Bug 243491 - Grub depends on gtk2
Summary: Grub depends on gtk2
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Peter Jones
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: 246381 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-09 01:36 UTC by Szombathelyi György
Modified: 2008-06-17 01:31 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 01:31:14 UTC
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Description Szombathelyi György 2007-06-09 01:36:27 UTC
Description of problem:

Grub has an indirect dependency on gtk2 this way:
gtk2->gtk2-engines->grub->redhat-artwork->fedora-logos->grub
This is unnecessary, the whole dependency chain is for 
the /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz file.
This should be put to the grub package, or a separate rpm.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
try to yum remove gtk2 -> it want to deinstall grub.

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Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2007-07-04 16:09:59 UTC
*** Bug 246381 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Brett 2007-07-22 06:33:05 UTC
I second this. All the gtk stuff for a headless server is a big waste!
Will the dependency be removed from grub?

Comment 3 Craig Routledge 2007-07-31 14:33:00 UTC
Alternatively, if the artwork people want to keep everything in one location,
can grub just not display a background picture if the fedora-logos package is
not installed?  On some devices this could be a big space saver.


Comment 4 Ben Webb 2007-11-09 18:10:11 UTC
FWIW, this dependency seems to have gone away in Fedora 8 - after an upgrade, I
was able to remove gtk2 and friends from my servers without breaking grub.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 12:57:10 UTC
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:31:12 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
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