On 04/23/2009 04:55 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote: > -----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? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190476 poc
