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Xptos n00b
Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 53 Location: Japan
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 4:56 am Post subject: Wacky Dependencies |
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My system came up with no probs. I decided to 'emerge xmms mozilla kdebase kdeadmin'. One of the deps for kdeadmin is RPM. Now, to me, it seems silly to have rpm/apt/whatever installed on a system that already has a package manager.
1) Will installing rpm do anything bad?
2) Can I do unmerge rpm after the install or will it complain that it is needed?
3) What other wacky deps are lurking around?
4) Is anyone working to whittle down the deps on major packages to stuff you really need?
Normally I wouldn't complain, but having RPM listed as a dep in Gentoo is a glaring oversight. It needs to be expunged. |
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mksoft l33t
Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 7:41 am Post subject: |
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rpm is a dependency for kpackage (kde's package manager - can be used with rpm and deb) in kdeadmin.
I can't seem to find a USE flag for rpm.
You can modify kdeadmin's ebuild and remove the rpm dependencies (it is in /usr/portage/kde-base/kdeadmin/kdeadmin-3.0.1.ebuild ).
This is the originial ebuild:
Code: | inherit kde-dist
DESCRIPTION="${DESCRIPTION}Administration"
newdepend ">=app-arch/rpm-4.0.4-r1
dev-libs/popt
pam? ( >=sys-libs/pam-0.72 )"
use pam && myconf="$myconf --with-pam" || myconf="$myconf --without-pam
--with-shadow"
myconf="$myconf --with-rpm" |
You can modify it to something like:
Code: | inherit kde-dist
DESCRIPTION="${DESCRIPTION}Administration"
newdepend "dev-libs/popt
pam? ( >=sys-libs/pam-0.72 )"
use pam && myconf="$myconf --with-pam" || myconf="$myconf --without-pam
--with-shadow"
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Xptos n00b
Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 53 Location: Japan
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Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 10:51 pm Post subject: One for the Dev Team |
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Seems like we should send this up to the dev team. |
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