On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:43 +1000, Jeff Fearn wrote: > Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 11:59 +0000, Keith Sharp wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I noticed that Publican (0.3.0 from Rawhide) has a > >> BuildRequires/Requires for kdesdk. I don't use any other KDE software > >> and this requirement causes a huge additional download on my system. > >> Could someone explain why Publican needs this packages and if there is > >> any way this could be avoided? > > > > Being a GNOME user myself, I'm not thrilled by this either -- the right > > answer may be as simple as tweaking the packaging of kdesdk to provide a > > subpackage on which we can depend instead. I'd imagine the binaries we > > need are /usr/bin/xml2pot and /usr/bin/po2xml from that package, maybe > > tied up in kdesdk-i18n or something like that. > > > > Jeff Fearn should be around on the list -- Jeff, how close did I come > > there to the right answer? :-) > > 100% correct. > > AIUI Jens Petersen has asked about getting a separate package, I don't > know how far he got thought. I've created two bugs, with patches, requesting that kdesdk be modified to have a kdesdk-potools sub-package and that Publican depend on this rather than kdesdk: 443023 and 443024. Keith. -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
