[fedora-java] Dependency problem of freemind and groovy

Johannes Lips johannes.lips at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 08:49:19 UTC 2013


On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com>wrote:

> > I received the following bug report, which is mainly saying, that an
> > average freemind install is a bit too big, because it installs a lot
> > of
> > eclipse* stuff. [1]
> > A short analysis shows that the eclipse stuff is pulled in by the
> > following dep-chain:
> > freemind <- groovy <- jansi, jansi-native <- hawtjni <- xbean <-
> > eclipse*
> > I just wanted to ask, if it's possible to split that chain somewhere
> > and
> > make it a bit easier to install freemind.
>
> This is a known problem. It affects not only freemind, but many
> other packages too.
>
> A possible solution would be to split freemind package (or some
> other packages) into more subpackages.
>
Wouldn't it then not be the easiest way to split up the package which
probably causes this? Which is hawtjni in this case.
I don't know if it's possible to split up freemind in a sensible manner,
since it's much more exposed to users.


> --
> Mikolaj
>
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