On Sep 10, 2008, at 7:01 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
Dear all,
today I was doing a fink update-all when I found that "doxygen" now
introduces
more than 100 dependencies, "git" more than 26, among them things
like mysql
which are indirectly pulled because this package wants other
packages (svn) that
I do not want.
Could the fink maintainers keep some sanity and not force us to
devote several
gigabytes of programs and features we do not use at all? In
particular I do not
want gnome at all. Should I want it, I would be using my Ubuntu box!
The problem comes from the fact that building doxygen means also
building doxygen's documentation doxygen_manual.pdf, for which all
possible applications of doxygen are executed. This means that
graphviz
and latex need to be installed. Graphviz then pulls in most of gnome.
A way out would be to have a minimal doxygen package without
documentation and almost no dependencies, and to offer a separate
doxygen+documentation package. You could try to persuade the doxygen
maintainer to do this, or make your own modification to the
doxygen.info
file.
BTW, there are still dependencies missing from doxygen: qt3 is used,
but
not in the dependency list, as far as I see.
--
Martin
That sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately the maintainer hasn't
been active in a while.
It also may still be worth auditing the distribution to see whether
every package that claims to need doxygen actually does. A lot of
configure scripts check for doxygen, but not all packages build docs
with it as part of their default build operation.
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter
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