Re: crazy dependencies

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On Mon, 2024-07-01 at 16:46 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> Tim:
> > > evolution: error while loading shared libraries:
> > > libgsttranscoder-
> > > 1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > > directory
> > > 
> > > Evolution did work on that system long before those gstreamer
> > > plugins
> > > were ever installed.  And it works again after reinstalling
> > > them.  It's
> > > just bonkers.
> > > 
> > > It's because of these kind of cascading failures that I avoid
> > > installing anything extra unless I'm quite sure I'll really need
> > > it,
> > > because removing something can become next to impossible.
> 
> Lukas Middendorf:
> > It's likely some update of the evolution package that makes it
> > depend on 
> > the gstreamer plugins now (that error proves that the dependency is
> > real). You could not have avoided that by not installing the
> > gstreamer 
> > plugins. Installing or updating evolution would have forced you to 
> > install the gstreamer plugins.
> 
> Much more likely that it's a false dependency.  The erased and
> replaced
> packages were not from a Fedora repo.

Evolution is part of the Gnome DE and uses GTK libraries, so the
dependency could come from there rather than Evo itself. There is also
a Flatpak version which would presumably avoided this issue, but that's
not to everyone's liking.

poc
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