starting Fedora Server SIG
John Ellson
john.ellson at comcast.net
Wed Nov 12 15:12:25 UTC 2008
Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>>> Fedora is not in a bad state with respect to fine grained dependencies
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>> So
>>> if its a problem where's the bug report, I don't currently see any
>>> open bugs against ntop at all which means the problem has either been
>>> fixed, or the maintainer isn't aware there's an issue. Having a quick
>>> look at the ntop rpm it looks like its the graphviz bit the pulls in
>>> all the gnome stuff, no doubt that can be split out into a sub
>>> package, as could probably the mysql and perl dependencies.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Whats the issue with graphviz?
>>
>
> Nothing per say. Its the case of ntop's dependency on it for a base
> leve firewall/router style device it pulls in essentially the whole of
> gnome. A quick look at graphviz's list of deps it looks like it has
> split up the dependencies quite a bit. See the complaint about ntop
> and it pulling in metacity further up in the thread.
>
> Peter
>
>
Are there guidelines somewhere on what packages should not be pulled in
on a server?
Currently graphviz has a gtk+ renderer in its base package. I can see
that that could be separated. What else?
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John Ellson
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