[Pkg-kde-extras] DigiKam on Squeeze vs Lenny

[Magnus Sandberg]

Hi George,

Thanks for your reply. Your answer is the type of answer I hoped for. 
Even though I hoped there could be some reduction in dependencies :-)

Your recommendation to use phonon-backend-gstreamer together with 
digikam would save me from installing 16 packages, or at least 16 fewer 
that with standard phonon-backend-xine. Maybe there are other tweaks 
that could reduce the installation even more.

Regards,
// Mem

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On 5th of June 2010, George Kiagiadakis wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Magnus Sandberg<mem at netnod.se>  wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I wrote the email below close to two weeks ago and no one has replied. Some
>> sort of reply would have been nice. Even if it had said something like: 'you
>> should file a proper bug report', or 'this is taken care of', or 'already
>> considered but we can't reduce the number of dependencies', or best of all
>> 'thanks for your feedback, we'll fix it in the next update'.
>>
>> Any type of response would felt better that just nothing.
>>
>> Have a nice weekend!
>> // Mem
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24th of May 2010, Magnus Sandberg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a good photo management software. First I looked into
>>> F-spot but I'm a bit skeptic about Mono. Now I'm thinking of DigiKam but
>>> the dependencies are crazy in Squeeze. I'm running some quite tight
>>> installations using Gnome as Window manager.
>>>
>>> On my Lenny machine (not the actual target, just used as reference)
>>> DigiKam would like to install 16 new packages but on my Squeeze machine
>>> (the actual target) DigiKam would like to install 116 packages. How can
>>> it come that I would get 100 extra packages on Squeeze? Something has to
>>> be wrong with the dependencies in Squeeze. Please see attached command
>>> outputs.
>>>
>>> I'm not on the list, please reply to me direct.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> // Mem
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Hi, we are sorry for the lack of reply. Personally, I must have
> skipped this message just by reading the subject, expecting someone
> familiar with digikam to reply (I don't use digikam myself). But now
> that I read it, I think I can give you an answer.
>
> The dependencies are correct. digikam in lenny is an older version
> that uses kde3, while digikam in squeeze uses kde4. kde3 and kde4 are
> completely different in packaging, with the major difference being the
> kdelibs package, which is monolithic in kde3 (all libraries in one
> package) while it is split in many smaller packages in kde4. There are
> probably also some new features in digikam that use other components
> of kde and add some extra dependencies too. The only thing that you
> could avoid installing is all the xine related libraries, by
> installing phonon-backend-gstreamer (which is interchangeable with
> phonon-backend-xine and sounds more appropriate for gnome, which uses
> gstreamer everywhere).
>
> Regards,
> George
>