[fedora-java] Dependency problem of freemind and groovy

Mikolaj Izdebski mizdebsk at redhat.com
Sun Feb 3 10:28:49 UTC 2013


> I received the following bug report, which is mainly saying, that an
> average freemind install is a bit too big, because it installs a lot
> of
> eclipse* stuff. [1]
> A short analysis shows that the eclipse stuff is pulled in by the
> following dep-chain:
> freemind <- groovy <- jansi, jansi-native <- hawtjni <- xbean <-
> eclipse*
> I just wanted to ask, if it's possible to split that chain somewhere
> and
> make it a bit easier to install freemind.

This is a known problem. It affects not only freemind, but many
other packages too.

A possible solution would be to split freemind package (or some
other packages) into more subpackages.

--
Mikolaj


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