Mission Impossible #1: qt without gtk

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 12:23 +0400, Eugene Pivnev wrote:
> 13.05.2013 02:31, Todd Zullinger:
> > Eugene Pivnev wrote:
> >> 11.05.2013 23:22, Adam Williamson:
> >>>> qgit -> git -> libgnome_keyring 
> >>> ...like this one, for instance. libgnome-keyring's dependencies are 
> >>> pretty modest:
> >> As I found in git.spec - git's gnome-keyring suff is optional. Is it 
> >> possible to move them into separate package (for gnome users)?
> >
> > This doesn't sound too unreasonable at first (and wasn't hard to do; I 
> > tested it locally).
> >
> > I am not convinced that it's worth the effort, though.  All the 
> > dependencies of libgnome-keyring are included in the minimal install.  
> > So what would be the gain?  (Splitting the package only to avoid 
> > pulling in something with gnome in the name isn't enough. ;)
> >
> > The cost would be causing users who want to use the git gnome 
> > credential helper to install an additional package.
> >
> > If this wasn't already in place, I'd probably be more inclined to add 
> > it as a subpackage from the start.  But now that it's included, I'm 
> > not as sure that the costs are outweighed by any benefits.
> >
> > I could be completely wrong, of course.
> >
> The problem is that Fedora is too Gnome distro.

That is a rant, not a description of a problem. The simple fact that the
package "libgnome-keyring" has the word "gnome" in it is not sufficient
to qualify as a problem. As Todd wrote, libgnome-keyring itself has very
minimal dependencies, it does not require the rest of the GNOME
components. So the fact that git depends on it is not really a problem.

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