fedora-logos dependencies in F7

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jun 15 09:37:07 UTC 2007


Hans K. Rosbach wrote:
> Grub depends on fedora-logos that in turn
> depends on gtk2-engines and pretty soon you
> have pulled in most of the X libraries.
> 
> Thats an aweful lot to require for a boot menu,
> and we didn't have this problem for FC4, FC5
> and FC6 atleast. Hope this will be fixed atleast
> in rawhide.
> 

See the archives of this list. This has been discussed extensively.

> Is there any reason for the logos package to
> depend on gtk2-engines at all? Shouldn't it
> be the other way around?

That doesn't make much sense to me. A engine isn't dependent on the 
theme. If the branding is removed from Grub then the dependencies can be 
avoided.

Rahul




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