[Bug 1250652] Re: Far too many dependencies for boinc-manager

[Ken Sharp]

Ah, I was not aware install-recommends was a default option. Installing
with --no-install-recommends dramatically improves the situation. This
is not obvious, sadly, and wastes resources. Suggests may be better as
you're not really likely to ask for boinc-manager alone unless you want
boinc-manager alone.

Unfortunately there does appear to be an odd error that is solved by
install boinc-client:

When launching BOINC Manager from the Gnome menu it produces an error
that it is unable to find /var/lib/boinc-client, which of course does
not exist unless boinc-client is also installed. Launching from the
terminal does not produce this error.

This is solved by removing the Path= variable from the .desktop file
(and logging out/in).

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Exec=/usr/bin/boincmgr
Path=/var/lib/boinc-client
Icon=boincmgr-32
Categories=System;Monitor;GTK;
Name=BOINC Manager
GenericName=BOINC monitor and control utility
GenericName[cs]=Monitorovací a ovládací nástroj pro BOINC
GenericName[de]=BOINC Überwachungs- und Kontrollprogramm
GenericName[pt]=Monitorização BOINC e utilitário de controlo
Comment=Configure or monitor a BOINC core client
Comment[cs]=Monitoruje a nastavuje klienta BOINC
Comment[de]=BOINC Basis Client konfigurieren oder überwachen
Comment[pt]=Configurar ou monitorizar o cliente básico do BOINC

HOWEVER:

This exists so that boincmgr can connect to the client automatically.

A better solution was a simple:
mkdir /var/lib/boinc-client
Then boincmgr does not complain.

Unless there is some intelligence that the menu system can use to ignore
the Path= if the directory does not exist, then it might be worth adding
an empty /var/lib/boinc-client to the boinc-manager package to avoid
this error.

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  Far too many dependencies for boinc-manager

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