On 04/23/2009 08:35 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Ben Boeckel wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >>> I want to remove kdeedu-marble, having no use for it, >> but yum tells me >>> this leads to removing digikam as well. >>> >>> What has a mapping application go to do with a photo >> manager? >> >> Digikam can show where a photo was taken on a map if >> the EXIF tags are there. It should probably be an >> optional dependency, but that'd be something for >> upstream to sort out most likely. > > correct, GEOIP tagging feature, which is linked into the application, so > it's not possible to remove the hard dep (without losing the feature). <rant> Let me just say for the record that this sucks. kdeedu-marble is a 30MB download which I have no intention of using, not even for geo-tagging, i.e. I don't care about losing the feature and I conjecture that this is likely to be true of a great many users. It's absurd that this isn't optional. I get it that it's an upstream problem, so my complaint is really directed at the KDE folks, but still. </rant> I guess I'll register my displeasure on the KDE BZ. poc
