On Sunday 10 June 2007, Christopher Aillon wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > If an application specifically needs yelp (spelled out in its code or > > config) it ought to require yelp or give an error dialog if yelp is > > missing. If, on the contrary, it only uses yelp via some GNOME component, > > there also ought to be an error dialog if yelp is missing. +1 > You'd still need the gnome libraries which should pull in the right stuff. yelp comes with a dependency chain. In the case of dia, adding a dependency on yelp (whether directly or indirectly if the dep is in some gnome lib packages), that right stuff would result in the need to additionally install yelp, desktop-file-utils, docbook-dtds, fedora-bookmarks, firefox, gnome-doc-utils, libXt, libbeagle, nspr, nss, openjade, opensp, scrollkeeper, sgml-common, and xml-common. In some cases the number of additional dependencies is probably smaller and in some others even larger. Either way, various GNOME things already suffer from dependency bloat, please let's try to work towards reducing, not adding to it. I think having yelp installed by default (if GNOME is selected) and fixing apps to output sensible error dialogs if it's missing, and not adding the dependencies in packages [0] would be an ok solution for this case. [0] Requires(hint)/Suggests support in depsolvers could also help here. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
