Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 442616
Split inkscape modules into subpackages.
Last modified: 2014-03-16 23:14:05 EDT
Description of problem: I installed inkscape with yum. Installing: inkscape x86_64 0.46-2.fc9 rawhide 18 M Installing for dependencies: ImageMagick x86_64 6.3.8.1-3.fc9 rawhide 4.0 M ImageMagick-c++ x86_64 6.3.8.1-3.fc9 rawhide 146 k ImageMagick-perl x86_64 6.3.8.1-3.fc9 rawhide 220 k atlas x86_64 3.6.0-12.fc8 rawhide 4.2 M compat-libgfortran-41 x86_64 4.1.2-36 rawhide 164 k libEMF x86_64 1.0.3-7.fc9 rawhide 86 k libgfortran x86_64 4.3.0-6 rawhide 260 k numpy x86_64 1.0.3.1-2.fc9 rawhide 2.2 M perl-Parse-Yapp noarch 1.05-38.fc9 dfoo 46 k perl-XML-DOM noarch 1.44-4.fc9 dfoo 138 k perl-XML-RegExp noarch 0.03-4.fc9 dfoo 8.3 k perl-XML-XQL noarch 0.68-6.fc9 dfoo 108 k pstoedit x86_64 3.45-2.fc9 rawhide 512 k python-lxml x86_64 2.0.3-1.fc9 rawhide 1.7 M So, that means it uses: - a C runtime - a C++ runtime - a Fortran runtime - a python runtime - a perl runtime all for a single app? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.46-2.fc9 Additional info: *Fortran*? Seriously?
I was already thinking about this. This is due to big amount of plugins. Some of them even have more external dependencies, such as LaTeX, etc. I am wondering whether it makes sense to split the extensions into a separate package of each, as there are tens of extensions. Maybe group them into packages based on their dependencies?
I suppose it depends on what those extensions functionally do; that would be more logical from a user perspective.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Dependencies got ridden of in a different way. (Shipping the plugins itself, but don't requiring all their dependencies and letting inkscape's dependency mechanism deal with it).