Bug#454991: rsvg and rsvg-viewer should not be packaged together

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>   I was looking for a converter SVG to PNG, and I found that
> librsvg2-bin is pretty good at this job. However, I was rather upset
> when installing it pulled in 30MB of gnome dependencies... I didn't
> look in the code, but I would be very surprised if the converter
> depended on gnome's printing libraries.

 rsvg-view permits printing; this is currently implemented with
 libgnomeprintui.  rsvg-convert doesn't depend on libgnomeprintui, you
 don't need to check the code, simply running objdump -x | grep NEEDED
 will tell you.

>   The solution to that would be to package them separately. What do
> you think about that ? After all, the converter could be used
> on a X free server. It would then pull in even much more useless
> dependencies, such as the full X11 librairies. 

 I understand your concern about the dependency tree, but I still
 wouldn't want these binaries to be split, it would be a bit overkill.
 However, libgnomeprint is being phased out upstream in favor of Gtk+
 printing support.  You're welcome to work on moving to Gtk+ for
 printing, but I suggest you work with upstream on this subject.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier