Bug#788690: file-roller: Please provide a separate package for the nautilus extension

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Sun Jun 14 15:53:42 UTC 2015


[re-adding 788690 at bugs.debian.org]
Am 14.06.2015 um 17:49 schrieb Margarita Manterola:
> Hi,
>  
> El Domingo 14 Junio 2015 16:47 CEST, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> Ha escrito: 
>> Am 14.06.2015 um 16:35 schrieb Margarita Manterola:
>>> It's not a question of the size of the lib, but rather of the dependencies that get pulled in because of it, that are totally irrelevant for file-roller itself and are not needed when using a different file browser.
>> And which dependencies would that be, that are of concern to you?
> 
> The main problem is of course nautilus-data, which pulls in nautilus, which pulls in quite a bunch of extra stuff.  I guess that if nautilus-data is dropped, the rest are rather small libs that we can probably live with (libnautilus-extension1a and possibly others, but it's really hard to figure out which exactly)
> 
> Would you drop nautilus-data completely? Because if it's a Recommends it's basically the same result.

As said, from looking at the code, it seems ok to not have a hard
depends on nautilus-data, so I would drop that dependency altogether.

The only additional dependency that the extension then drags in is
libnautilus-extension1a. That library has no additional dependencies,
which wouldn't already be required by file-roller itself or is typically
installed anyway.



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