[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#653708: Bug#653708: ibus package dependancies

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 09:28:59PM +0700, vietnq wrote:
> Package: ibus
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> I have dist-upgraded debian testing recently. However, installing
> ibus now requires both ibus-gtk and ibus-qt4.

Not true.

qt4 support is recommends.  So you can always chose not to install it.
(Your posted message has this proof at the bottom.

> I am using just only GTK environment, and older version of ibus +
> ibus-gtk had worked fine.

Well things are moving.  For GTK, things are moving from GTK2 to GTK3.

> Currently, I have to install libqt* in order to use ibus-gtk.

No.  I do not knoe which package installer you use.  But that is
usually configured to install recommends as default.  If you are fussy
like this, you just deselect ibus-qt4.

> Is 'core' package renamed? 

No.  But messy dependency structure was fixed.

You can argue that these recommends should be suggests.  Well if I do
that, I get another camp of people complaining. Since disks are cheap
these days, I went for the fully functioning system.

If you want to maintain (unusual) minimal system, apt preference is your
friend.  See my Debian Reference:

2.7.5. Blocking packages installed by "Recommends"
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_blocking_packages_installed_by_recommends

> How to install minimal ibus packages to run
> in GTK-only environment?

You just have to learn how to use the package manager.

> Versions of packages ibus depends on:
> ii  gconf2           2.32.4-1
> ii  im-config        <none>

Sorry.  0.8 was broken.  Wait for 0.9 This was my bug.
It should give you good guidance :-)

> ii  libc6            2.13-23
> ii  libgconf2-4      2.32.4-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0     2.30.2-4
> ii  libgtk2.0-0      2.24.8-2
> ii  libibus-1.0-0    1.4.0-3
> ii  librsvg2-common  2.34.2-2
> ii  libx11-6         2:1.4.4-4
> ii  python           2.7.2-9
> ii  python-ibus      <none>
> ii  python-notify    0.1.1-3
> ii  python-xdg       0.19-3
> 
> Versions of packages ibus recommends:
> pn  ibus-gtk | ibus-qt4 | ibus-clutter  <none>

See these are "RECOMMENDS"  You are missing all.  So you are using xim
path.

> ibus suggests no packages.

Since this is not a bug but user a support, I will keep this here and make
this wontfix.

Osamu