Bug#225268: glabels tries to use scrollkeeper-update in postinst

[Marc Wilson]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:04:13AM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > As a request... please don't make glabels require scrollkeeper.
> 
> Have you an another solution ?
> 
> Scrollkeeper is not a huge depends, in a pbuilder (base without anything
> else installed) :
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   docbook-xml libscrollkeeper0 libxml2 libxslt1 scrollkeeper sgml-base
>   sgml-data symlinks
> 
> 
> So no depends at all on Gnome ....

No depends at all on Gnome?  What do you think all this crud in its
dependencies is, then?  At the risk of asking a really stupid question, why
does glabels need to depend on libaudiofile?  On libesd?  Does libgnomeui
bring those in?  I'm not up on Gnome library dependencies... I just know
glabels has no reason to make any noise.

The previous version did not depend on scrollkeeper.  Why, then, does this
one need to?  The documented requirements in /usr/share/doc/glabels/README
do not require it.  Heck, its documented requirements don't require HALF
the stuff that IS in the package dependencies.  OTOH the README might be
out of date, since the TODO file says it's been bonobo-ified (why, only
the gods know), but that's not in the stated dependencies in the README
either.  There's no upstream changelog shipped, so I don't reallly know
what's been changed.

And yes, as a user, I'm prejudiced against the historically quite
screwed-up scrollkeeper.  And, for those of us not using Gnome, the fact
that it registers in scrollkeeper is utterly useless.  Especially when the
sum total of what it registers is "Please see the README".  And only in
English, despite the rest of the program being at least partly
internationalized.

I try to keep the junk that I have installed but will never use down to an
absolute minimum.  Having to have a subset of the Gnome libraries installed
is bad enough.  Gnome makes a LOT more "library noise" than, say, KDE seems
to (please don't go there, I don't allow ANY of KDE on any box I control).

Ah, well... another package that I can keep on hold while I figure out the
best way to build it locally with minimum dependencies.  This is getting to
be a habit.

No worries.  Just wanted to state where I was coming from.

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