[Debian-olpc-devel] Dependancies.... seem to be awful lot.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:41:43PM -0700, Simon Wood wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:44:53 +0100
>Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>
>> >It seems the main culprit is python-gnome2-desktop which pulls in a 
>> >whole load of gnome dependencies, only some of which I presume are 
>> >needed.
>> 
>> Ah, yes. I remember now: Sugar needs the SVG parser from that package 
>> - I agree that it is annoying that it pulls in the whole world.
>> 
>> Please someone (you?) help out here: file a bugreport against that 
>> package, proposing to split it into smaller pieces.
>> 
>
>Is the required bit in question the python binding to librsvg2-2 and 
>librsvg2-common?

Correct.


>I found reference to this being a seperate package under Fedora called 
>gnome-python2-rsvg.

Ok.

For Debian the package name would be different, due to a naming policy 
for Python modules.


>I note that there is already request to split out gtksourceview.so, in 
>which a comment also requests pyrsvg be split too. 
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400651
>
>
>What exactly does Sugar need from this package?

As far as I recall (and according to my note in its changelog) it only 
needs pyrsvg from that package.

I remember now that you present it to me, that I've read that bugreport 
during my researching dependencies: I judged back then that oh well, I 
am not alone in wanting this split, but since that bugreport has been 
hanging there for more than a year there's probably no point in pursuing 
it.

It is great if you are more optimistic than me and could push it. Thanks 
for your effort here!


  - Jonas


P.S.

A small hint: You can use shorter links to Debian bugreports - like 
this: http://bugs.debian.org/400651

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