F12: weird dependenciy between xpaint and emacs

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:28:08 +0100, Joachim wrote:

> >> But after having uninstalled emacs by "rpm -e emacs --nodeps", xpaint
> >> still runs properly. So, why that dependency?
> >
> > Examine the "xpaint" package to see whether it stores files in any
> > of Emacs' directories. That may be the reason for the dependency.
> > Else check out the xpaint.spec file.
> 
> I found no common files.
> 
> How to extract the specfile from the xpaint package?

$ yumdownloader --source xpaint
[...]
xpaint-2.8.7.3-1.fc12.src.rpm                            | 760 kB     00:01     

Then either install it or use rpm2cpio or rpmdev-extract or your favourite
tool to access the package contents.

Emacs is an explicit dependency in the .spec file. There is no comment
that gives a rationale.