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Nameless One

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Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 11

GTK-Qt Engine dragging in GNOME dependencies O.o

I hadn't done a 'pacman -Syu' for some time so I went ahead yesterday to get myself up to speed.
But when it listed all the updates, there was a dozen or so GNOME libraries it wanted to download.
I found out the culprit was the upgrade of 'gtk-qt-engine' from 0.7-3 to 0.8-1.
All of a sudden, 'gtk-qt-engine' had a whole bunch of unneeded dependencies, which as a KDE user, I certainly didn't want polluting my system

libglade-2.6.2-1  libgnomecanvas-2.14.0-2  gconf-2.18.0.1-4  smbclient-3.0.26a-1  gnome-mime-data-2.18.0-3 gnome-vfs-2.18.1-2  orbit2-2.14.8-1  libbonobo-2.18.0-2  libgnome-2.18.0-2 libbonoboui-2.18.0-2 libidl2-0.8.8-1  shared-mime-info-0.22-1

Checking the repos, we can see 'libbonoboui' is a dependency now. But checking the project site shows it's optional.
I updated it anyway, ignoring dependencies. And it works fine without the added trash.

As I am unfamiliar as to how to contact maintainers, I thought I'd post here to raise awareness and hopefully someone can update the package without the dependancy on GNOME libraries.

Last edited by Nameless One (2007-09-14 06:47:09)

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: GTK-Qt Engine dragging in GNOME dependencies O.o

Already mentioned here :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36923

Based on what JGC said, I am not sure what should be done.
But you could always try reporting a bug -> bugs.archlinux.org .

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