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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2003-11-07 09:37:33
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > I woulde be interested in comments whether to place libntfs-gnome-vfs (the > > newly merged libntfs module for GNOME VFS) in a separate rpm or to keep it > > in the normal ntfsprogs rpm. At present both are in the same rpm. > > > > I am tempted to leave them in one rpm but it does have the drawback that > > the ntfsprogs rpm now has more dependencies in that it requires glib and a > > whole lot of other stuff (here is a full list of the added requirements: > > /bin/sh libbonobo-activation.so.4 libcom_err.so.3 libcrypto.so.4 > > libdl.so.2 libgconf-2.so.4 libglib-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so.0 > > libgnomevfs-2.so.0 libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgssapi_krb5.so.2 > > libgthread-2.0.so.0 libk5crypto.so.3 libkrb5.so.3 liblinc.so.1 libm.so.6 > > libORBit-2.so.0 libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) > > libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2) libresolv.so.2 librt.so.1 libssl.so.4 > > libxml2.so.2 libz.so.1). > > > > Do people think this is ok or do we need two rpms one without dependencies > > on gnome and one with? > > I think it's a very bad idea to bring into play all these dependencies. > There are a LOT OF rescue, recovery, backup, etc, etc distro, CD's etc and > about over 99% don't need these. > > > Also do we want to modify the build process so that if gnome is not > > installed or if gnome is disabled using a (to be implemented) option to At present, I have made the rpm build process split off an ntfsprogs-gnomevfs rpm which contains the module and the config file for it. The rpm is dependent on the installation of the main ntfsprogs rpm. However the dependencies are still just as mad for the main rpm. The build process needs cleaning up for that so that all the gnome/glib stuff only gets added to the compilation of the libntfs-gnomevfs related sources... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
