further package removals/potential package removals

Jeff Johnson n3npq at nc.rr.com
Sun Jan 23 04:32:59 UTC 2005


Chris Adams wrote:

>Once upon a time, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at nc.rr.com> said:
>  
>
>>... nautilus "needs" samba much likes it needs just about every other 
>>bleeping library
>>in FC4. Why? Because users want "features", and features requires 
>>implementations,
>>usually in libraries, which use sonames, which are copied into package 
>>dependencies.
>>    
>>
>
>nautilus has an explicit dependency in the spec file on gnome-vfs2-smb.
>It does not have any apparent dependency on libsmb.so that is provided
>by gnome-vfs2-smb (nothing seems to have such a dependency).  If I don't
>have any need to browse Windows networks, why do I need the software
>installed?
>
>Features are great; _required_ features are not.
>  
>

rpm -q --changelog nautilus
...
* Thu Aug 26 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> - 2.7.4-3
- Added requires eject
- Depend on gnome-vfs2-smb instead of -extras

RFE in bugzilla is far more effective mechanism for change than 
fedora-devel.

73 de Jeff




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