further package removals/potential package removals

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Sun Jan 23 06:30:29 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 22:16 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> nautilus has an explicit dependency in the spec file on gnome-vfs2-smb.
> It does not have any apparent dependency on libsmb.so that is provided
> by gnome-vfs2-smb (nothing seems to have such a dependency).  If I don't
> have any need to browse Windows networks, why do I need the software
> installed?

libsmb.so is dlopen'd, so no ldd dependency.

> Features are great; _required_ features are not.

The reason for a Requires here (and in similar cases) 
is to suck in gnome-vfs2-smb when anaconda upgrades 
a system.

Comes up with some package in most releases, and there
are a fair number of Requires: that exist purely for 
that reason.

Havoc





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