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

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 7 18:53:01 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

I have filed a few bug report related to this. Thanks for the input.

Rahul




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