On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:07:57 -0600, anlarye wrote: > Is there a way to install a package with just the bare minimum required > packages? You may want to learn about runtime requirements and RPM package dependencies before starting a topic with such a question. > I am running a XFCE spin of Fedora 23. I wanted to install kvirc on the > box. But when I go through dnf install kvirc, the list ends up being about > 38 additional packages. I doubt that all of them are needed for kvirc to > run. > > So how do I get kvirc and just what it needs in order to work properly? What does it need? How do you tell? Let's take a brief look at the packages: Information for RPM kvirc-4.2.0-16.fc23.x86_64.rpm http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=6418864 Scroll a bit down to the column (at the left side) which says "Requires". Almost all of those are automatic dependencies on shared libraries required at runtime. The package tools find the packages which provide those "things" the kvirc package requires. Look at the package source file: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kvirc.git/plain/kvirc.spec It adds no manual dependencies. There are no "explicit Requires" tags in the spec file except for a conditional line to require a minimum version of KDE 4. So, which dependencies do you think are _not_ needed? Perhaps you have in mind libraries, which may be searched for at runtime and would be linked with only when the program wants to call out to the library interface actually? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
