[arch-general] farsight2/gstreamer dependencies pull a lot of gnome related stuff

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Marek Otahal's message of 2011-05-17 09:18:00 +0200:
> Hi, a recent update wants to bring in a lot of new gnome/gstreamer-plugins 
> dependencies, like gtk3,gconf etc..is that really necessary? 
> 
> On my system, kde-meta-kdemultimedia needs farsight2, which seems to cause all 
> the new dependencies. 
> 
> Should the dependencies be reviewed or do I really need all that? 
> Thanks, Mark
> 
> $ yaourt -Syu
> Password: 
> :: Synchronizing package databases...
>  testing                                   13.2K  180.6K/s 00:00:00 
> [#####################################] 100%
>  core                                      37.9K  195.5K/s 00:00:00 
> [#####################################] 100%
>  extra is up to date
>  community-testing is up to date
>  community                                444.8K  423.0K/s 00:00:01 
> [#####################################] 100%
>  kernel26-ck is up to date
>  archlinuxfr is up to date
> 
> 
> ==> Package upgrade only (new release):
> extra/liblqr                     0.4.1-1    1 -> 2
> extra/pkgstats                   2.1-4      4 -> 5
> 
> ==> Software upgrade (new version) :
> testing/grep                     2.7-1      -> 2.8-1
> testing/pixman                   0.20.2-1   -> 0.22.0-1
> extra/gstreamer0.10              0.10.32-1  -> 0.10.34-1
> extra/gstreamer0.10-base         0.10.32-4  -> 0.10.34-1
> extra/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.32-4  -> 0.10.34-1
> extra/farsight2                  0.0.26-1   -> 0.0.28-1
> extra/poppler                    0.16.4-1   -> 0.16.5-1
> extra/poppler-qt                 0.16.4-1   -> 0.16.5-1
> extra/telepathy-glib             0.14.5-1   -> 0.14.6-1
> extra/telepathy-farsight         0.0.17-1   -> 0.0.18-1
> 
> ==> New package :
> extra/gstreamer0.10-good         0.10.29-1  (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
> plugins)
> extra/libavc1394                 0.5.3-3    (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
> plugins)
> extra/libiec61883                1.2.0-2    (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
> plugins)
> extra/libdv                      1.0.0-3    (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
> plugins)
> extra/audiofile                  0.2.7-1    (required by esound)
> extra/esound                     0.2.41-1   (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
> plugins)
> extra/orbit2                     2.14.19-1  (required by gconf)
> extra/gtk3                       3.0.9-2    (required by gconf)
> extra/gconf                      2.32.3-1   (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
> plugins)
> extra/wavpack                    4.60.1-1   (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
> plugins)
> extra/gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.0.1-2    (required by glib-networking)
> extra/glib-networking            2.28.6.1-2 (required by libsoup)
> extra/libsoup                    2.34.1-1   (required by libsoup-gnome)
> extra/libgnome-keyring           3.0.1-1    (required by libsoup-gnome)
> extra/libsoup-gnome              2.34.1-1   (required by gstreamer0.10-good-
> plugins)
> extra/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.29-1  (required by farsight2)
> extra/gstreamer0.10-bad          0.10.22-1  (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
> plugins)
> extra/libdc1394                  2.1.3-1    (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
> plugins)
> extra/libmms                     0.6-1      (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
> plugins)
> extra/libcdaudio                 0.99.12-5  (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
> plugins)
> extra/mjpegtools                 1.9.0-4    (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
> plugins)
> extra/soundtouch                 1.5.0-1    (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
> plugins)
> extra/gsm                        1.0.13-6   (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
> plugins)
> extra/rtmpdump                   2.3-3      (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
> plugins)
> extra/libgme                     0.6.0-1    (required by gstreamer0.10-bad-
> plugins)
> extra/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins  0.10.22-1  (required by farsight2)
> 
> ==> Continue upgrade ? [Y/n]
> ==> [V]iew package detail   [M]anually select packages
> ==> --------------------------------------------------
> ==> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> $ yaourt -Rcsn farsight2
> checking dependencies...
> 
> Remove (20): kde-meta-kdenetwork-4.6-1.2 [0.00 MB]  kdenetwork-krdc-4.6.3-1 
> [0.91 MB]
>              telepathy-qt4-0.5.16-1 [6.31 MB]  telepathy-farsight-0.0.17-1 
> [0.22 MB]
>              farsight2-0.0.26-1 [1.38 MB]  kdenetwork-filesharing-4.6.3-1 
> [1.61 MB]
>              kdenetwork-kdnssd-4.6.3-1 [0.07 MB]  kdenetwork-kget-4.6.3-1 
> [4.16 MB]
>              kdenetwork-kopete-4.6.3-1 [18.58 MB]  kdenetwork-kppp-4.6.3-1 
> [3.02 MB]
>              kdenetwork-krfb-4.6.3-1 [0.77 MB]  rdesktop-1.7.0-1 [0.37 MB]  
> telepathy-glib-0.14.5-1 [17.67 MB]
>              gstreamer0.10-python-0.10.21-1 [1.16 MB]  libnice-0.1.0-1 [1.18 
> MB]  libgadu-1.10.1-1 [0.23 MB]
>              libmsn-4.1-2 [1.02 MB]  libotr-3.2.0-2 [0.38 MB]  qca-
> ossl-2.0.0-3 [0.30 MB]
>              ppp-2.4.5-2 [0.82 MB]
> 
> Total Removed Size:   60.18 MB

I too find it annoying. pidgin would have pulled in half of gnome
because of this. Well, no pidgin no more.