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Re: Pro-Action against dependency hell



On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:

> epdfview depends on libqt

epdfview has been removed from Debian but it never depended on Qt, always GTK+:

http://bugs.debian.org/710550
http://packages.debian.org/source/stable/epdfview

> evince pulls in the whole of QT adding ages to the build time.

None of the build logs here mention anything to do with Qt, since
evince only uses GTK+/GNOME related technologies.

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=evince

> It would be rediculous if chattr +ias /sbin/init needed to be set
> before installing systemd.

It isn't needed because the systemd package does not include that pathname:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/systemd/filelist

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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