[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#768801: Bug#768801: owncloud-client-cmd: Depends on qt

[Robert LeBlanc]

On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:50:58 +0100 Sandro =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Knau=DF?= <
bugs at sandroknauss.de> wrote:

> Hey,

>

> > When evaluating if the cmdtools could be used for syncing some dirs on
my

> > server, I saw that it pulls in qt5 libraries.

> > This is unexptected for a cmd line tool...

>

> well it is qt4 for the package in sid. But qt is only a C++ framework in
which

> the client is written, so there is no way to install the client without
qt.

>

> And why you say it is unexpected?

>

> > Can you please check if the depedencies can be somehow "shrinked" to a
sane

> > level?

>

> Well the dependencies are created automatically with looking at ldd. So I
see

> no way to "shrink" the dependencies.

>

> Regads,

>

> sandro

>

>


Trying to install owncloud-client-cmd is pulling in ~232MB of X11
libraries, things this VM will never use like DRI, audio, etc. However,
like you say, it is built on Qt and such dependencies are required until
the application is re-factored. in the meantime, I'll look into pyOwnCloud (
https://github.com/csawyerYumaed/pyOwnCloud) or just mounting the space via
WebDav and using rsync.


If you can pass the request to remove the X11 dependencies upstream, it
would be helpful to have a headless server not needing Qt or X11.


Thanks,
Robert LeBlanc
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