Attention, dependency fighters

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Nov 8 17:37:32 UTC 2012


Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 07:56:30PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > long story short, it's firewalld. Its deps are pretty heavy for
> > something that's supposed to be in minimal. I'm sure twoerner would
> > welcome help in pruning the deps if it's possible. it should at least be
> > possible for it not to depend on both pygobject2 and pygobject3, one
> > would think :)
> 
> 
> Maybe we could have a release criterion which states that the minimal
> install doesn't have anything which pulls in the X libraries (or Wayland)?
> 
> That's not a _completely_ arbitrary line in the sand. Probably the issue
> here is just a matter of what goes in what subpackage.

Nod, this is more due to how pygobject3 is packaged rather than firewalld
itself.

Bill


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