tags 334681 wontfix thanks On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:35:41AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > actually it happened that I have just wanted to install unixodbc-dev > and found that it would draw in a lot of gnome libraries. > On closer inspection this was the depencency of gtkodbcconfig0.
> Unixodbc seems usefull without GUI's and it is useful for GUIs where > you do not depend on the full GNOME or KDE libraries. > So I would wish for a seperate packages of the QT and GTK/GNOME dependent > parts and make them optional in the dependencies. Many people have asked for this, but I don't see any reason that the -dev package needs to be broken up. The requirements for a development system are not the same as those for a production system, and I don't believe there's any reason people that are doing development can't deal with GNOME and Qt (*not* KDE!) libraries being pulled in. > unixodbc (2.2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low > * Fix libgtkodbcconfig so that it's properly linked against > libs it depends on. Correspondingly move this helper lib to its > own package, so no one screams at me for forcing the installation > of libesd on their servers. > Maybe that plan just technically did not work out and you just forgot > the remove the dependency? ;) No, you just read into that changelog entry something that wasn't said. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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