On 08/25/2009 03:37 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> A quick way to actually check for such dependencies is to switch to >> another desktop environment, say Xfce, remove all the KDE packages and >> install one of the KDE apps. It usually reveals dependencies which >> are rather silly. I have seen kde-settings, background packages and >> kdebase pull in odd dependencies on occasions. k3b, ktorrent, scribus >> et all are often used outside KDE. > > It's not like those dependencies bite. ;-) HDD space is cheap.
Unneeded dependencies do bite. I have a net connection with a bandwidth cap at home. Packages that pulls in random silly dependencies are a big pain. I have sit through updates of them as well. There more often those packages get updated, the bigger the pain is. yum-presto is a life saver but the dependency bloat is not a ignorable problem at all. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
