On 13 December 2016 15:59:55 GMT+00:00, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Dec 13, 2016, at 2:41 AM, Miika Turkia <[email protected]> >wrote: >> >> Installing subsurface to yakkety requires me to install also the >> following dependencies. I really dislike the idea of installing >> avahi-daeman and libnss-mdns. From my point of view, these are >useless >> on any normally configured network, and I have so far never used >> network autoconfigurations... (Didn't look that carefully into other >> libraries.) >> >> ---8<--- >> The following additional packages will be installed: >> avahi-daemon geoclue-2.0 iio-sensor-proxy libdouble-conversion1v5 >> libgeoclue-2-0 libgrantlee-templates5 >> libnss-mdns libqt5bluetooth5 libqt5bluetooth5-bin libqt5concurrent5 >> libqt5positioning5 libqt5qml5 libqt5quick5 >> libqt5script5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5webkit5 libqt5xml5 >libzip4 >> ---8<--- > >Subsurface doesn't depend on avahi-daemon nor on libnss-mdns >Both of those must be implicit dependencies of other libraries we >depend on :-( > Not sure if it's the case here but I've noticed the default in some distros is to install recommends as well as depends. It may just be a recommend on one of those other libraries (try apt::install-recommends "false"; in/etc/apt/apt.conf)
I've also noticed the package maintainers of some other packages sometimes overstate the dependency and add depends on "something" because "something" is needed to support a certain feature, even though the package can happily be used without that feature. >> Anyway Subsurface was installed successfully. However, when I started >> Subsurface for the first time, declined checking of updates, imported >> an XML log, and hit quit (without saving), subsurface GUI >disappeared, >> but the process keeps on running, apparently forever. > >That's not good. If you attach to it with a debugger, what is it doing? > >/D >_______________________________________________ >subsurface mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
