On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 09:46 -0800, Christopher Stone wrote: > On Nov 15, 2007 9:33 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:30:00 -0800 > > John Poelstra <poelstra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I've been thinking the same thing...you also lose liferea and pidgin > > > which seems totally silly too! > > > > > > Which component(s) should a bug be filed against? > > > > You lose those because they have the capability of responding to > > NetworkManager connection/disconnection events so that they can do the > > right thing. It would appear that they link to NetworkManager-glib, > > and thus if you remove -glib you lose them. > > So I guess we need a pidgin-NM or something so pidgin can be installed > without NetworkManager. I'm sure that there are hundreds of cases > like this in Fedora, and probably the #1 gripe among Fedora users > right now. Modifying every package to split out every optional > component is a lot of work, but should be done. I think an effort to > do this is key towards making Fedora a base distribution for all other > distributions. The idea that you should install all optional > components for every package you install is good on paper but not in > practice, especially for making spins and custom distros. I would suggest going back to the pidgin developers and seeing if the NM-capability can't be separated into a run-time loadable shared object (module) if it isn't already. That way that can be packaged separately like any other pidgin module. -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
