6:24 p.m.
On 12/02/2008 11:48 PM, Chris Snook wrote:
Curtis Doty wrote:
> Doing some server benchmarking today on f10. And gnuplot has somehow
> acquired *way* to many unnecessary deps.
>
> # yum -d1 install gnuplot
>
> ==============================================================
> Package Arch Version Repository
> Size
> ==============================================================
> Installing:
> gnuplot x86_64 4.2.3-1.fc10 fedora 2.2 M
> Installing for dependencies:
> GConf2 x86_64 2.24.0-1.fc10 fedora 1.7 M
> ORBit2 x86_64 2.14.16-1.fc10 fedora 196 k
> PolicyKit x86_64 0.9-3.fc10 fedora 173 k
> SDL x86_64 1.2.13-6.fc10 fedora 210 k
> alsa-lib x86_64 1.0.18-6.rc3.fc10 fedora 418 k
> atk x86_64 1.24.0-1.fc10 fedora 216 k
> cdparanoia-libs x86_64 10.2-2.fc10 fedora 53 k
> cups-libs x86_64 1:1.3.9-2.fc10 fedora 199 k
> gd x86_64 2.0.35-6.fc10 fedora 151 k
> gstreamer x86_64 0.10.21-2.fc10 fedora 789 k
> gstreamer-plugins-base x86_64 0.10.21-2.fc10 fedora 990 k
> gstreamer-tools x86_64 0.10.21-2.fc10 fedora 20 k
> gtk2 x86_64 2.14.4-3.fc10 fedora 4.3 M
> hicolor-icon-theme noarch 0.10-4 fedora 39 k
> jasper-libs x86_64 1.900.1-8.fc9 fedora 153 k
> libICE x86_64 1.0.4-4.fc10 fedora 54 k
> libIDL x86_64 0.8.11-1.fc10 fedora 93 k
> libSM x86_64 1.1.0-2.fc10 fedora 26 k
> libXcomposite x86_64 0.4.0-5.fc10 fedora 14 k
> libXcursor x86_64 1.1.9-3.fc10 fedora 29 k
> libXdamage x86_64 1.1.1-4.fc9 fedora 11 k
> libXfixes x86_64 4.0.3-4.fc10 fedora 15 k
> libXi x86_64 1.1.3-4.fc9 fedora 29 k
> libXinerama x86_64 1.0.3-2.fc10 fedora 13 k
> libXpm x86_64 3.5.7-4.fc9 fedora 57 k
> libXrandr x86_64 1.2.3-1.fc10 fedora 26 k
> libXv x86_64 1.0.4-1.fc10 fedora 20 k
> libjpeg x86_64 6b-43.fc10 fedora 143 k
> libogg x86_64 2:1.1.3-9.fc9 fedora 19 k
> liboil x86_64 0.3.14-1.fc9 fedora 148 k
> libtheora x86_64 1.0rc1-2.fc10 fedora 190 k
> libtiff x86_64 3.8.2-11.fc10 fedora 317 k
> libvisual x86_64 0.4.0-6.fc9 fedora 152 k
> libvorbis x86_64 1:1.2.0-5.fc10 fedora 212 k
> wxBase x86_64 2.8.9-1.fc10 fedora 673 k
> wxGTK x86_64 2.8.9-1.fc10 fedora 3.8 M
>
> Transaction Summary
> ==============================================================
> Install 37 Package(s)
> Update 0 Package(s)
> Remove 0 Package(s)
>
> Total download size: 18 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: n
> Exiting on user Command
>
> In this case, the server admin already has the desired base libX11 and
> libpng stuff. So only the jpeg and related imaging libs are probably
> reasonable. But definitely *not* the multimedia and various UI elements.
None of the direct dependencies in that dependency tree are
unreasonable. There are three ways to make them go away:
a) Disable the GUI bits in gnuplot at build time, and remove the
requisite dependencies. This will piss off anyone who actually uses
those features.
b) Create gnuplot-cli and gnuplot-gui packages that conflict with each
other. This will piss off lots of people.
Why would they have to conflict with each other? Either you use gnuplot-cli
as a baseline and build gnuplot-gui on top of that or if you want the
option of not installing the CLI bits then you create gnuplot-common and
then gnuplot-cli and gnuplot-gui on top of that. Many packages in Fedora
are already split in this way.
Regards,
Dennis