On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 05:49 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Nathanael d. Noblet wrote: > > I have F21 Workstation installed. I installed liveusb-creator and the > > following was the dependency chain installed. > > > > http://www.fpaste.org/180713/34735142/ > > > > The real odd parts are all the multi-media being installed. This seems > > to stem from phonon being included in the chain. I don't really know why > > it is. Is this a bug? > > Problem #1 is that PyQt4 is not split into subpackages for the different Qt > modules being bound, so you end up with the Phonon and QtWebKit bindings > installed, which drag in the rest. So far we have chickened out of splitting > PyQt4, we'll need to look into this issue in the KDE SIG. > > Problem #2 is that you are getting phonon-backend-vlc instead of phonon- > backend-gstreamer, which ends up dragging in a lot of dependencies. Try > using --exclude=phonon-backend-vlc to force yum to pick -gstreamer instead. > This is a result of phonon-backend-vlc being in RPM Fusion (and you having > that enabled). It gets preferred by yum for some reason (shorter name? fewer > direct dependencies? something else? I don't know which of the many criteria > is being used here). I have always said that having phonon-backend-vlc in > the repositories is a bad idea (because you end up with a different default > backend depending on the repositories you have selected, leading to a > support nightmare), but I wasn't listened to. (In fact, this even affects > builds of KDE packages in RPM Fusion, where phonon-backend-vlc also gets > dragged in, and thus the KDE packages cannot be rebuilt against a new FFmpeg > before VLC is. That sucks.) Ah I see. Well thanks for the info. I was pretty surprised to see all these multi-media related things being dragged in for what is essentially a dd wrapper. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
