Christopher Stone (chris.stone(a)gmail.com) said:
So I guess we need a pidgin-NM or something so pidgin can be
installed
without NetworkManager. I'm sure that there are hundreds of cases
like this in Fedora, and probably the #1 gripe among Fedora users
right now. Modifying every package to split out every optional
component is a lot of work, but should be done. I think an effort to
do this is key towards making Fedora a base distribution for all other
distributions. The idea that you should install all optional
components for every package you install is good on paper but not in
practice, especially for making spins and custom distros.
Why? It's a 100k library dependency, and it doesn't actually *start*
NM to have the dependency. At what point do you ask for pidgin-ssl?
Bill