On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:47:19AM -0200, Pierre Ancelot wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I just uninstalled xmms and seen KDE depends on... xmms !? > > kdeutils-3.5.7p0 and kdeaddons-3.5.7 depends on xmms or xmms-mp3 ? > To uninstall xmms, I had to remove kdeutils and kdeaddons... > > pkg_delete -F dependencies xmms xmms-mp3 removed kdeutils-3.5.7p0 and > kdeaddons-3.5.7 > Why is this ?
For kdeaddons, that's a no-brainer. You've got a package which explicitly contains *add-ons*... including some mediacontrol kicker applet. kdeutils contains superkaramba, which is another framework for applets, among which there is an xmms applet... We do not split every kde package along every lib needed. That becomes impossible to follow for the user. Especially stuff like kdeutils and kdeaddons which are, by essence, not essential parts of kde, but rather eye-candy to start with.
