Excessive package interdependency
Chris Ricker
kaboom at gatech.edu
Wed Dec 17 19:13:28 UTC 2003
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> What I find funny is that it automatic dependency tracking has been
> disabled for the redhat-artwork package:
>
> $ rpm -q --requires redhat-artwork
> redhat-logos >= 1.1.10
> /usr/lib/qt-3.1
> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
>
> The bluecurve.so files depend on *many* libraries
>
> $ ldd /usr/lib/qt-3.1/plugins/styles/bluecurve.so | wc -l
> 25
>
> and would pull in many components (libjpeg, libpng, zlib, GL, X,
> freetype, libmng, Qt, C++, ...).
That package is a serious issue, dependency-wise. See #101439 for more fun
with it
later,
chris
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