Potential bad dependencies: NetworkManager-gnome, totem and system-config-display

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jan 7 18:38:03 UTC 2008


Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> While creating the Xfce spin for Fedora 8, I noticed a few packages seem to 
> have a bad dependency list. NetworkManager-gnome has a hard dependency on 
> things like gnome-panel and gnome-keyring. Totem has a hard dependency on 
> gnome-desktop and gnome-themes. system-config-display has a hard dependency 
> on metacity. Are these really required?

gnome-keyring, gnome-desktop, metacity - definitely. You can file bugs
about the others if you feel strongly, but they may be hard requirements as
well.

Bill




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