Re: [gentoo-user] Why does gnome-python-desktop have so many dependencies?

[Brian Johnson]

Well, the README in the source of this package says:

This package contains a few python modules that used to live in
> gnome-python-extras:
>
>   - gnomeapplet
>   - gnomeprint, gnomeprint.ui
>   - gtksourceview
>   - wnck
>   - totem.plparser
>   - gtop
>   - nautilusburn
>   - mediaprofiles
>   - metacity


Sounds like you might wanna ping upstream (not Gentoo) if you feel this
package should be changed.

- Brian

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Alastair Irving <
alastair.irving@×××××××××.uk> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> I'm trying to run a program which requires the wnck python module,
> which I believe is part of the gnome-python-desktop package.  I like
> to keep my gnome desktop minimal, but this package wants to install
> the following:
>
> $ emerge -vp gnome-python-desktop
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies     ... done!
> [ebuild  N    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.10.14  0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.6  USE="-debug" 0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/gtksourceview-1.8.5-r1  USE="-debug -doc" 0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/libgtop-2.20.2  USE="-debug" 756 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] dev-util/cmake-2.4.6-r1  USE="emacs -vim-syntax" 2,544 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r11  USE="python" 39 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.6  USE="gnome -debug" 0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-pango-0.10.14  0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6  USE="-debug" 756 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.10.6  0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libdvdcss-1.2.9-r1  USE="-doc" 277 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-gnomevfs-0.10.14  0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.10.14  0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/a52dec-0.7.4-r5  USE="-djbfft -oss" 236 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libmpeg2-0.4.1  USE="X -sdl" 483 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1.6  USE="unicode -hfs" 1,375 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.7  380 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.6  0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.6  0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools-7.1  138 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-0.10.6  0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] gnome-extra/nautilus-cd-burner-2.20.0  USE="cdr dvdr
> -debug" 0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-video/totem-2.20.3  USE="bluetooth dvd flac gnome
> python vorbis -a52 -debug -ffmpeg -galago -hal -lirc -mad -mpeg -nsplugin
> -nvtv -ogg -seamonkey -theora -xulrunner -xv" 0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] gnome-extra/gnome-media-2.20.1  USE="ipv6 vorbis -debug
> -esd -mad -ogg" 0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] dev-python/gnome-python-desktop-2.20.0  USE="X -debug -doc"
> 0 kB
>
> Total: 25 packages (25 new), Size of downloads: 6,981 kB
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows whether the package really needs all
> these dependencies, as it seems ludicrous to be installing video
> players etc, just for the sake of a python module.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Alastair Irving
>
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