XFCE depends on GNOME, why?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Globe Trotter wrote:

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 >
 > Hi,
 > All I was trying to say was that over time, gnome elements got pulled 
in, despite trying things like this or similar. I started with the XFCE 
Fedora 8 Live CD and then stripped it of gnome-related RPMS and over 
time, and upgrades, I still have all those gnome\* rpms which have 
nothing to do

Sorry. Can't help unless there is a specific complaint. If a specific 
package has unnecessary dependencies or things that can be split up, 
file bug reports.

 > I am not talking about Gnome developers, rather developers of 
packages, who seem to include some gnome dependency sometimes.

This can sometimes be split up. Again, you have to be specific to have a 
meaningful conversation.

 > I use firefox from the days of phoenix, and even contributed to the 
original code. I did not have gnome  in those days. I wonder if it 
really requires gnome, either directly or indirectly.  Similarly for 
xfce4-xfapplet-plugin, etc.

Yes. Read the description of the plugin. It is a wrapper around GNOME 
applets and yes, package dependencies change over time. So what predates 
which project doesn't make much of a difference to the current state of 
dependencies.

Rahul