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#1 2010-10-04 23:56:20
- ja1217
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- Registered: 2007-12-29
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Several unnecesarry dependencies for virt-manager
I typically try to keep a very minimal desktop and Arch usually lets me do a good job of that (one of the main reasons why I switched to it in the first place). However, it seems that the way pacman is handling some of the gnome python bindings in recent update is causing a bunch of unnecessarry gnome packages to get installed.
For example, I was simply trying to install virt-manager, and I'm pretty sure that the only gnome dependency I needed was the gconf python module. However, to get that module I was supposed to install gnome-python-desktop, which essentially installs all of gnome (metacity, evolution-dataserver, brasero, etc., etc.). This seems to be a recent change, since virt-manager has been working fine on my desktop for quite a while without all this gnome stuff.
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#2 2010-10-05 00:01:19
- Allan
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- Registered: 2007-06-09
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Re: Several unnecesarry dependencies for virt-manager
Bug reports should go to the bug tracker... Luckily someone else already has done so: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21070
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#3 2010-10-05 01:38:25
- ja1217
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Re: Several unnecesarry dependencies for virt-manager
Bug reports should go to the bug tracker... Luckily someone else already has done so: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21070
Wasn't sure if this was a bug or a design decision (it probably is more convenient from a packaging point of view to lump all the gnome-python stuff together).
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