insane parted deps

[Felix Miata]

# yum remove parted
...
Remove  1 Package (+110 Dependent packages)
...
O_O

e.g.
gwenview
kamera
kcalc
kde-print-manager
kdm
kmix
kwallet
kwrite
ksnapshot
okular
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[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:27:17 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>  # yum remove parted
>  ...
>  Remove  1 Package (+110 Dependent packages)
>  ...
>  O_O
>  
>  e.g.
>  gwenview
>  kamera
>  kcalc
>  kde-print-manager
>  kdm
>  kmix
>  kwallet
>  kwrite
>  ksnapshot
>  okular 
Well, that doesn't show the direct dependencies on "parted". Package
"parted" contains shared libs, which likely are linked with desktop
framework components which cannot be removed. A basic and more direct
depcheck is like this (but not with KDE):

# rpm --test --erase parted
error: Failed dependencies:
	libparted.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed) libvirt-daemon-0.10.2.1-3.fc18.x86_64
	parted is needed by (installed) libvirt-daemon-0.10.2.1-3.fc18.x86_64
	parted is needed by (installed) udisks2-2.0.0-1.fc18.x86_64

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insane parted deps (not really)

[Rex Dieter]

Felix Miata wrote:

>  # yum remove parted
>  ...
>  Remove  1 Package (+110 Dependent packages)
>  ...
>  O_O
>  
>  e.g.
>  gwenview
>  kamera
>  kcalc
>  kde-print-manager
>  kdm
>  kmix
>  kwallet
>  kwrite
>  ksnapshot
>  okular 
In particular,

$ rpm -e parted
error: Failed dependencies:
...
        libparted.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed) 
udisks-1.0.4-8.fc18.x86_64
        libparted.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed) 

So, not so insane afterall.  There's *lots* of infrastructure that uses 
upower

One could argue for splitting libparted from the pkg parted packaging (which 
is ~2.3mb in total by the way), but i'm not sure if it's worth it.

-- rex

[John5342]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net&gt; wrote:
>  # yum remove parted
>  ...
>  Remove  1 Package (+110 Dependent packages)
>  ...
>  O_O
>
>  e.g.
>  gwenview
>  kamera
>  kcalc
>  kde-print-manager
>  kdm
>  kmix
>  kwallet
>  kwrite
>  ksnapshot
>  okular 
According to repoquery:
Most of Kde seems to be taken out by parted -> udisks -> kdelibs -> All of kde.
Most of gnome seems to have a similar problem but through parted ->
udisks2 -> gvfs.

Since i don't know a lot about udisks so whether these dependencies
are sane or not is for someone else to decide.