Excerpts from Marek Otahal's message of 2011-05-17 09:18:00 +0200: > Hi, a recent update wants to bring in a lot of new gnome/gstreamer-plugins > dependencies, like gtk3,gconf etc..is that really necessary? > > On my system, kde-meta-kdemultimedia needs farsight2, which seems to cause all > the new dependencies. > > Should the dependencies be reviewed or do I really need all that? > Thanks, Mark > > $ yaourt -Syu > Password: > :: Synchronizing package databases... > testing 13.2K 180.6K/s 00:00:00 > [#####################################] 100% > core 37.9K 195.5K/s 00:00:00 > [#####################################] 100% > extra is up to date > community-testing is up to date > community 444.8K 423.0K/s 00:00:01 > [#####################################] 100% > kernel26-ck is up to date > archlinuxfr is up to date > > > ==> Package upgrade only (new release): > extra/liblqr 0.4.1-1 1 -> 2 > extra/pkgstats 2.1-4 4 -> 5 > > ==> Software upgrade (new version) : > testing/grep 2.7-1 -> 2.8-1 > testing/pixman 0.20.2-1 -> 0.22.0-1 > extra/gstreamer0.10 0.10.32-1 -> 0.10.34-1 > extra/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.32-4 -> 0.10.34-1 > extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.32-4 -> 0.10.34-1 > extra/farsight2 0.0.26-1 -> 0.0.28-1 > extra/poppler 0.16.4-1 -> 0.16.5-1 > extra/poppler-qt 0.16.4-1 -> 0.16.5-1 > extra/telepathy-glib 0.14.5-1 -> 0.14.6-1 > extra/telepathy-farsight 0.0.17-1 -> 0.0.18-1 > > ==> New package : > extra/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.29-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- > plugins) > extra/libavc1394 0.5.3-3 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- > plugins) > extra/libiec61883 1.2.0-2 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- > plugins) > extra/libdv 1.0.0-3 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- > plugins) > extra/audiofile 0.2.7-1 (required by esound) > extra/esound 0.2.41-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- > plugins) > extra/orbit2 2.14.19-1 (required by gconf) > extra/gtk3 3.0.9-2 (required by gconf) > extra/gconf 2.32.3-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- > plugins) > extra/wavpack 4.60.1-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- > plugins) > extra/gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.0.1-2 (required by glib-networking) > extra/glib-networking 2.28.6.1-2 (required by libsoup) > extra/libsoup 2.34.1-1 (required by libsoup-gnome) > extra/libgnome-keyring 3.0.1-1 (required by libsoup-gnome) > extra/libsoup-gnome 2.34.1-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-good- > plugins) > extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.29-1 (required by farsight2) > extra/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.22-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- > plugins) > extra/libdc1394 2.1.3-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- > plugins) > extra/libmms 0.6-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- > plugins) > extra/libcdaudio 0.99.12-5 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- > plugins) > extra/mjpegtools 1.9.0-4 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- > plugins) > extra/soundtouch 1.5.0-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- > plugins) > extra/gsm 1.0.13-6 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- > plugins) > extra/rtmpdump 2.3-3 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- > plugins) > extra/libgme 0.6.0-1 (required by gstreamer0.10-bad- > plugins) > extra/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.22-1 (required by farsight2) > > ==> Continue upgrade ? [Y/n] > ==> [V]iew package detail [M]anually select packages > ==> -------------------------------------------------- > ==> > > > > > > $ yaourt -Rcsn farsight2 > checking dependencies... > > Remove (20): kde-meta-kdenetwork-4.6-1.2 [0.00 MB] kdenetwork-krdc-4.6.3-1 > [0.91 MB] > telepathy-qt4-0.5.16-1 [6.31 MB] telepathy-farsight-0.0.17-1 > [0.22 MB] > farsight2-0.0.26-1 [1.38 MB] kdenetwork-filesharing-4.6.3-1 > [1.61 MB] > kdenetwork-kdnssd-4.6.3-1 [0.07 MB] kdenetwork-kget-4.6.3-1 > [4.16 MB] > kdenetwork-kopete-4.6.3-1 [18.58 MB] kdenetwork-kppp-4.6.3-1 > [3.02 MB] > kdenetwork-krfb-4.6.3-1 [0.77 MB] rdesktop-1.7.0-1 [0.37 MB] > telepathy-glib-0.14.5-1 [17.67 MB] > gstreamer0.10-python-0.10.21-1 [1.16 MB] libnice-0.1.0-1 [1.18 > MB] libgadu-1.10.1-1 [0.23 MB] > libmsn-4.1-2 [1.02 MB] libotr-3.2.0-2 [0.38 MB] qca- > ossl-2.0.0-3 [0.30 MB] > ppp-2.4.5-2 [0.82 MB] > > Total Removed Size: 60.18 MB I too find it annoying. pidgin would have pulled in half of gnome because of this. Well, no pidgin no more.
