Bug 787415 - Dolphin's servicemenuinstallation and servicemenudeinstallation scripts are in Ruby
Summary: Dolphin's servicemenuinstallation and servicemenudeinstallation scripts are i...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kde-baseapps
Version: 19
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-04 23:59 UTC by Kevin Kofler
Modified: 2015-02-17 14:05 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-02-17 14:05:10 UTC
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Description Kevin Kofler 2012-02-04 23:59:33 UTC
Description of problem:
Dolphin has 2 scripts for service menu (de)installation: /usr/bin/servicemenuinstallation and /usr/bin/servicemenudeinstallation. Those are Ruby scripts. This is very broken because there is no dependency on ruby, and we cannot add such a dependency to kde-baseapps because it would blow up our live image. (We already have 2 scripting languages on it, there's no way we can fit a third.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Everything between kdebase 4.4 and at least kde-baseapps-4.8.0-2.fc17.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try installing a servicemenu without having Ruby installed.
  
Actual results:
It doesn't work, and there are errors on the terminal about Ruby missing.

Expected results:
Installing a service menu must not gratuitously depend on Ruby.

Additional info:
Those scripts are very small, so it should not be too hard to port them to bash or C++. Kubuntu has a Python port in the Launchpad bug, but it's incomplete: the calls to an optional servicemenu-provided installation script are commented out and the deinstallation script is not ported. And I think bash or C++ would be a better choice anyway, to also avoid having kde-baseapps depend on Python.

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 17:50:57 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2015-01-09 16:59:04 UTC
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