unoconv in F20 gained dependency on strange GUI applications

[Caolán McNamara]

On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 09:33 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 08:18 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > The analogy here would be if installing .zip support installed two
> > ugly GUI apps. That's clearly not right, and if this isn't reverted in
> > F20 I'll have no choice to blacklist the chainsaw and LogFactor5
> > applications from the software center.
> 
> I'm not sure those two apps are actually the problem, either. It's not
> their fault that another application (LibreOffice Base... decided to
> depend on them.

Base doesn't directly depend on them, they come from log4j and that is
pulled in a number of extra levels down the dependency chain. By
apache-commons-logging. Ideally packages could depend on the jars of
log4j without getting those graphical apps along with it, i.e. split the
log4j package.

C.