On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:26:58 +0200, Björn wrote: > Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Björn Persson wrote: > > > I want to check whether a package drags in other packages > > > unnecessarily. > > > > define "unnecessarily"? > > When you're forced to install package A to be able to install package E even > though E doesn't use any of the functionality that A provides. > > For example, Michael Schwendt demonstrated that ktorrent pulls in qt-mysql, > which in turn depends on mysql-libs. That's OK if Ktorrent can actually do > something that results in queries to a MySQL database. Otherwise it drags in > the MySQL client libraries unnecessarily – that is, I should be allowed to > install Ktorrent without installing the MySQL client libraries. Installing ktorrent pulls in Akonadi, which is a PIM storage service, which in turn wants qt-mysql. It might be that ktorrent even includes PIM functionality. More unexpected was to see that it drags in a display manager and KDE base packages to offer KDE sessions at X gdm login. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
