-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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 It could possibly be added as a KService, but I don't know if Digikam's architecture is amenable to this (plugins would handle displaying of certain EXIF tags?). If it can't be made into a KService, there's not much we can do about it. If it can be, I'd expect 4.4 to be the earliest you can expect it. Mind linking the bug you filed here? - --Ben > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde- TuqUDEhatI4ANWPb/1PvSmm0pvjS0E/A at public.gmane.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora- kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknw3MkACgkQiPi+MRHG3qSq7QCeJBDU3CBpBBL8mnkujO9BDrJr grcAoL+Q/IFIsIbT8tBohitdQa9lkreX =h7GV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
