sensors plugin needs perl? (was: spins size changes)

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Samstag, den 11.05.2013, 16:07 +0200 schrieb Raphael Groner:
> > Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 21:24:46 -0600
> > From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>
> > To: xfce at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > Subject: spins size changes
> > Message-ID: <20130510212446.6bdb8fed at jelerak.scrye.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> > 
> > Greetings. 
> > 
> > We are coming up on Beta and thats when we start wanting to make sure
> > we hit our size target (700MB cd). 
> > 
> > Beta-TC4 Xfce is at 756M
> > 
> > The issues around perl have been cleaned up, so removing perl only
> > removes the xfce4-sensors-plugin (and all the perl modules). 
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> why did the sensors plugin need perl? Maybe the reason is already
> explained in an old mail here on the list or another one - I do not
> remember, sorry.

It's not too hard to figure out:

$ rpm -q --requires xfce4-sensors-plugin
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
hddtemp
libatk-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
libc.so.6()(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit)
libcairo.so.2()(64bit)
libfontconfig.so.1()(64bit)
libfreetype.so.6()(64bit)
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libgio-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libglib-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libgobject-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0()(64bit)
libm.so.6()(64bit)
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libnotify.so.4()(64bit)
libpango-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0()(64bit)
libpthread.so.0()(64bit)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
librt.so.1()(64bit)
libsensors.so.4()(64bit)
libxfce4panel-1.0.so.4()(64bit)
libxfce4sensors.so.1()(64bit)
libxfce4ui-1.so.0()(64bit)
libxfce4util.so.6()(64bit)
lm_sensors >= 2.8
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rtld(GNU_HASH)
xfce4-panel >= 4.4.1
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1

As you can see, the plugin itself does not require perl. So it must be
one of the dependencies:

$ rpm -q --requires lm_sensors
/bin/bash
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/perl
/usr/sbin/dmidecode
config(lm_sensors) = 3.3.2-5.fc18
libc.so.6()(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit)
libsensors.so.4()(64bit)
perl >= 0:5.004
perl(Fcntl)
perl(File::Basename)
perl(constant)
perl(strict)
perl(vars)
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rtld(GNU_HASH)
systemd-units
rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1

There it is.

> The sensors plugin should IMHO be included in the live image, it's one
> of the best plugins available for Xfce to do the show case.

As a maintainer I can say it's one of the worst plugins, it crashes
quite often and is badly maintained. I'm fine with removing it from the
spin.

Kind regards,
Christoph