2012/4/7 Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]>: > If thos of you lucky enough to have missed the beginning of the story, here > are the importants parts: > - first round: bug #4357, still marked as release blocker (despite a bit > excessive IMHO) > - second round: discussion on -dev, archived here: > https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-March/013342.html > > The whole issue turns around the unfortunate consequence of adding new > dependencies, for various reasons, between packages and in installer: > bloated minimal installation. In this case, this is about a specific *soft* > dependency from gnome-keyring to seahorse, which has painful consequences, > as outline by TV in comment #5 of the original report. > > Suggestion sofar for this initial problem have been suggested: > 1) move the gnome-keyring -> seahorse soft dependency either in task-gnome, > or task-gnome-minimal > 2) turn the mandatory dependency between libgnome-keyring to gnome-keyring > into a soft dependency > - Olav (or anyone else), do you have any objection to *also* move the soft > dependency from gnome-keyring to seahorse to either task-gnome or > task-gnome-minimal ? > I've made the changes of 1) and 2) locally: - remove Suggests: seahorse in gnome-keyring - add Suggests: seahorse in task-gnome-minimal - change Requires: gnome-keyring in libgnome-keyring to Suggests
If there's no objection, I would like to commit to svn and someone can submit it before beta3. We can test it and decide to keep or revert it before RC. Thanks.
