Publican requires KDE?

[Jeff Fearn]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 11:59 +0000, Keith Sharp wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed that Publican (0.3.0 from Rawhide) has a
>> BuildRequires/Requires for kdesdk.  I don't use any other KDE software
>> and this requirement causes a huge additional download on my system.
>> Could someone explain why Publican needs this packages and if there is
>> any way this could be avoided?
> 
> Being a GNOME user myself, I'm not thrilled by this either -- the right
> answer may be as simple as tweaking the packaging of kdesdk to provide a
> subpackage on which we can depend instead.  I'd imagine the binaries we
> need are /usr/bin/xml2pot and /usr/bin/po2xml from that package, maybe
> tied up in kdesdk-i18n or something like that.
> 
> Jeff Fearn should be around on the list -- Jeff, how close did I come
> there to the right answer? :-)

100% correct.

AIUI Jens Petersen has asked about getting a separate package, I don't 
know how far he got thought.

Cheers, Jeff.