Rant of the day: Insane dependencies for liveusb-creator

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.05.2013 18:03, schrieb Germán A. Racca:
> First of all, it is NOT a simple GUI. It is a GUI programmed in Python using the Qt toolkit, so if you don't have
> Qt installed in your system, it pulls as a dependency, which is great, because otherwise you would have to install
> everything manually, so don't get me wrong, but seriously, do you expect it to run from thin air?

yes, and that is why it on a KDE-desktop only pulls 6.3 MB additional packages
bad for a GNOME user, but in the other direction i have tons of GTK stuff
while i would like a QT-only system


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 Package                             Arch                     Version                          Repository
       Size
===============================================================================================================================
Installing:
 liveusb-creator                     noarch                   3.11.8-1.fc18                    updates
      176 k
Installing for dependencies:
 pyparted                            x86_64                   3.8-5.fc18                       fedora
      190 k
 sg3_utils-libs                      x86_64                   1.34-1.fc18                      fedora
       61 k
 smp_utils                           x86_64                   0.97-2.fc18                      fedora
      195 k
 smp_utils-libs                      x86_64                   0.97-2.fc18                      fedora
       17 k
 syslinux                            x86_64                   4.05-4.fc18                      fedora
      1.0 M
 syslinux-extlinux                   x86_64                   4.05-4.fc18                      fedora
      357 k
 udisks                              x86_64                   1.0.4-8.fc18                     fedora
      202 k

Transaction Summary
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Install  1 Package (+7 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 2.2 M
Installed size: 6.3 M


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