[arch-general] farsight2/gstreamer dependencies pull a lot of gnome related stuff

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 05/17/2011 11:38 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from Marek Otahal's message of 2011-05-17 09:18:00 +0200:
>> Hi, a recent update wants to bring in a lot of new gnome/gstreamer-plugins
>> dependencies, like gtk3,gconf etc..is that really necessary?
>>
>> On my system, kde-meta-kdemultimedia needs farsight2, which seems to cause all
>> the new dependencies.
>>
>> Should the dependencies be reviewed or do I really need all that?
>> Thanks, Mark
>>
>> $ yaourt -Syu
>> Password:
>> :: Synchronizing package databases...
>>   testing                                   13.2K  180.6K/s 00:00:00
>> [#####################################] 100%
>>   core                                      37.9K  195.5K/s 00:00:00
>> [#####################################] 100%
>>   extra is up to date
>>   community-testing is up to date
>>   community                                444.8K  423.0K/s 00:00:01
>> [#####################################] 100%
>>   kernel26-ck is up to date
>>   archlinuxfr is up to date
>>
>>
>> ==>  Package upgrade only (new release):
>> extra/liblqr                     0.4.1-1    1 ->  2
>> extra/pkgstats                   2.1-4      4 ->  5
>>
>> ==>  Software upgrade (new version) :
>> testing/grep                     2.7-1      ->  2.8-1
>> testing/pixman                   0.20.2-1   ->  0.22.0-1
>> extra/gstreamer0.10              0.10.32-1  ->  0.10.34-1
>> extra/gstreamer0.10-base         0.10.32-4  ->  0.10.34-1
>> extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.32-4  ->  0.10.34-1
>> extra/farsight2                  0.0.26-1   ->  0.0.28-1
>> extra/poppler                    0.16.4-1   ->  0.16.5-1
>> extra/poppler-qt                 0.16.4-1   ->  0.16.5-1
>> extra/telepathy-glib             0.14.5-1   ->  0.14.6-1
>> extra/telepathy-farsight         0.0.17-1   ->  0.0.18-1
>>
>> ==>  New package :
>> extra/gstreamer0.10-good         0.10.29-1  (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
>> plugins)
>> extra/libavc1394                 0.5.3-3    (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
>> plugins)
>> extra/libiec61883                1.2.0-2    (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
>> plugins)
>> extra/libdv                      1.0.0-3    (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
>> plugins)
>> extra/audiofile                  0.2.7-1    (required by esound)
>> extra/esound                     0.2.41-1   (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
>> plugins)
>> extra/orbit2                     2.14.19-1  (required by gconf)
>> extra/gtk3                       3.0.9-2    (required by gconf)
>> extra/gconf                      2.32.3-1   (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
>> plugins)
>> extra/wavpack                    4.60.1-1   (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
>> plugins)
>> extra/gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.0.1-2    (required by glib-networking)
>> extra/glib-networking            2.28.6.1-2 (required by libsoup)
>> extra/libsoup                    2.34.1-1   (required by libsoup-gnome)
>> extra/libgnome-keyring           3.0.1-1    (required by libsoup-gnome)
>> extra/libsoup-gnome              2.34.1-1   (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
>> plugins)
>> extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.29-1  (required by farsight2)
>> extra/gstreamer0.10-bad          0.10.22-1  (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
>> plugins)
>> extra/libdc1394                  2.1.3-1    (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
>> plugins)
>> extra/libmms                     0.6-1      (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
>> plugins)
>> extra/libcdaudio                 0.99.12-5  (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
>> plugins)
>> extra/mjpegtools                 1.9.0-4    (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
>> plugins)
>> extra/soundtouch                 1.5.0-1    (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
>> plugins)
>> extra/gsm                        1.0.13-6   (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
>> plugins)
>> extra/rtmpdump                   2.3-3      (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
>> plugins)
>> extra/libgme                     0.6.0-1    (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
>> plugins)
>> extra/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins  0.10.22-1  (required by farsight2)
>>
>> ==>  Continue upgrade ? [Y/n]
>> ==>  [V]iew package detail   [M]anually select packages
>> ==>  --------------------------------------------------
>> ==>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> $ yaourt -Rcsn farsight2
>> checking dependencies...
>>
>> Remove (20): kde-meta-kdenetwork-4.6-1.2 [0.00 MB]  kdenetwork-krdc-4.6.3-1
>> [0.91 MB]
>>               telepathy-qt4-0.5.16-1 [6.31 MB]  telepathy-farsight-0.0.17-1
>> [0.22 MB]
>>               farsight2-0.0.26-1 [1.38 MB]  kdenetwork-filesharing-4.6.3-1
>> [1.61 MB]
>>               kdenetwork-kdnssd-4.6.3-1 [0.07 MB]  kdenetwork-kget-4.6.3-1
>> [4.16 MB]
>>               kdenetwork-kopete-4.6.3-1 [18.58 MB]  kdenetwork-kppp-4.6.3-1
>> [3.02 MB]
>>               kdenetwork-krfb-4.6.3-1 [0.77 MB]  rdesktop-1.7.0-1 [0.37 MB]
>> telepathy-glib-0.14.5-1 [17.67 MB]
>>               gstreamer0.10-python-0.10.21-1 [1.16 MB]  libnice-0.1.0-1 [1.18
>> MB]  libgadu-1.10.1-1 [0.23 MB]
>>               libmsn-4.1-2 [1.02 MB]  libotr-3.2.0-2 [0.38 MB]  qca-
>> ossl-2.0.0-3 [0.30 MB]
>>               ppp-2.4.5-2 [0.82 MB]
>>
>> Total Removed Size:   60.18 MB
> I too find it annoying. pidgin would have pulled in half of gnome
> because of this. Well, no pidgin no more.
>
There is always abs

-- 
Jelle van der Waa