Ian Chapman wrote:
Matthias Clasen wrote:zenity ships a compatibility script for the old gdialog. That script is written in perl, which forces a perl dependency on zenity. I'd like to drop the script and the dependency from the rawhide zenity package. repoquery couldn't find anything that requires either gdialog or /usr/bin/gdialog. If you know a good reason why gdialog needs to stay, please let me know, otherwise it'll be gone soon.Why not put gdialog into a sub-rpm? It would eliminate the perl dependancy on zenity itself but retains the option to use gdialog just in case?
Keep in mind that more packages or sub-packages slows down all RPM dependency transactions.
I believe it may be wise indeed to get rid of it given that it is so very old, to provide compat functionality for GNOME 1.
Warren Togami wtogami redhat com