On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Martin Langhoff >>> <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Daniel, Peter, >>>> >>>> perl >>>> perl-libs >>>> perl-Module-Pluggable >>>> perl-Pod-Escapes >>>> perl-Pod-Simple >>>> perl-threads >>>> perl-threads-shared >>>> >>>> These seem to be brought in by Inkscape. >>>> >>>> Don't get me wrong, Perl was my foundational language for more than 10 >>>> years... but still... >>>> >>>> Should we axe Inkscape, or trim its dependencies? >>> >>> Why do we even have any Inkscape dependency at all? (You can generate >>> SVG in Turtle Art :P) >> >> Its used for the gnome desktop so as such its not a dependency on the >> sugar desktop component so I suspect its included as a graphics >> package for more senior kids. >> > Don't get me wrong. I am a huge fan of Inkscape. I use it almost as > much as Emacs (well, maybe not quite that much) but it really > shouldn't be on our dependency list.
As mentioned its not on any dependency list, its being explicitly pulled in through choice hence its not a dependency. Check in any SoaS build.... its not there. This is explicitly a choice by OLPC for OLPC builds. Peter _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel