unoconv in F20 gained dependency on strange GUI applications

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Wed Mar 19 02:35:55 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 20:27 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 19:00 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > If you've ever used Sushi or GNOME Documents to preview an ODT document,
> > you've probably noticed (or will soon notice) that strange GUI
> > applications were installed after a recent F20 update: Chainsaw,
> > LogFactor5, and LibreOffice Base. This is [1] and it's currently CLOSED
> > WONTFIX.
> > 
> > I just want to draw some attention to this, since post-release
> > dependencies impact the desktop team's ability to control the default
> > set of applications. I'm pretty sure we don't want users to have these
> > strange Java logging utilities by default.
> > 
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065776
> 
> Thanks for bringing this up. I agree that such dependencies are a
> problem for what we are trying do. 
> 

FYI: David fixed this by removing the dependency of libreoffice-filters
on libreoffice-base, and the update has reached F20 stable. Yay!

This means unoconv now depends on all the OTHER libreoffice programs,
which is probably not great, but all of those are installed by default.
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