Bug#580336: gnome-icon-theme: Too many dependencies

[Dmitry Katsubo]

> Le mercredi 05 mai 2010 à 13:25 +0400, Roman V. Nikolaev a écrit : 
>> I wan to use gnome icons in web project (rtpg-www package). Then I
>> attempt install gnome-icon-theme on web server (no x-org server, no
>> gnome on it, just console applications and daemons). And I get too more
>> dependences like: fontconfig, libgtk2.0-0, x11-common, ...
>> Can you decrease count of dependences?
> 
> Theoretically it’s possible to remove the dependencies on
> librsvg2-common and libgtk2.0-bin, but it would possibly break a lot of
> applications which use icons from this package, expecting it to just
> work. And this doesn’t “just work” without those installed; the former
> for SVG support, the latter for icon cache support.
> 
> Josselin Mouette

I agree with original bug reporter. The dependency on librsvg2-common
could be explained, but what dependency on libgtk-3-bin is needed for?
It takes 30+ dependencies, which include colord, sane-utils,
glib-networking and many others which have no direct relation to icons.


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With best regards,
Dmitry