Re: [fedora-java] Dependency problem of freemind and groovy

[Johannes Lips]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk(a)redhat.com&gt;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
>