dropping gdialog

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Aug 15 21:05:54 UTC 2007


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 at redhat.com




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