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cipparello

Member

From: Verona, Italy

Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 16

lm_sensors new package release 3.1.1-4 and rrdtool dependency

Hi to all,
  as specified by the ChangeLog since this release the rrdtool has moved from optdepends to depends; this change requires to install various packages that usually aren't required by an headless (X11 free) server as specified below:

pacman -S lm_sensors

Targets (16): libart-lgpl-2.3.20-1  libpng-1.2.40-1  freetype2-2.3.11-1  libxml2-2.7.6-1  renderproto-0.11-1  libxrender-0.9.5-1  fontconfig-2.6.0-2  pixman-0.16.2-1
              xcb-util-0.3.6-1  cairo-1.8.8-1  libxft-2.1.14-1  libdatrie-0.2.2-1  libthai-0.1.12-1  pango-1.26.1-1  rrdtool-1.4.1-1  lm_sensors-3.1.1-4

Total Installed Size:   28.22 MB (lm_sensors only package 0.52 MB installed)

I'm asking if there is any particular reason of the maintainer or community request at the base of this change?

Thanks

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: lm_sensors new package release 3.1.1-4 and rrdtool dependency

It was changed because if was required for a daemon while optdepends are more intended for plugins as such. If you don't want rrdtool:
# pacman -Rd rrdtool

cipparello

Member

From: Verona, Italy

Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 16

Re: lm_sensors new package release 3.1.1-4 and rrdtool dependency

It was changed because if was required for a daemon while optdepends are more intended for plugins as such. If you don't want rrdtool:
# pacman -Rd rrdtool

Thanks for the answer Snowman.

Since I do regulary a dependencies sanity check via crond I prefer to not forcibly remove rrdtool so I built a personal package with rrdtool as optdepends (like the previous release of the package).

If / when I will use sensord (that require librdd) I will install the optdep rrdtool.

Thanks, bye.