On Thursday 02 February 2006 08:49, you wrote: > El Jueves, 2 de Febrero de 2006 01:46, Christopher Martin escribió: > > On Monday 30 January 2006 11:16, Iñaki wrote: > > > Package: superkaramba > > > Version: 4:3.5.1-1 > > > > > > Superkaramba in Debian depends on XMMS, but this dependencia is not > > > necessary and doesn't allow me to desinstall GTK in my computer. > > > > Superkaramba can either be built with or without XMMS support. If it > > built with XMMS support, then Superkaramba will not start at all > > without XMMS being installed, due to unresolved symbols. So we can't > > simply lower XMMS from a dependency to a Suggests - we'd have to > > completely disable XMMS support. > > Ok, and could be possible an independent package "superkaramba-xmms" that > add XMMS support to superkaramba installed package? > > If it is possible the "superkaramba-xmms" could be a suggested package > for superkaramba and it will depend on XMMS. In this case KDE users don't > need XMMS installed to enjoy superkaramba. > > For example, Kubuntu by default doesn't include Gtk libraries, but if you > want to install supekaramba there appear too much dependences because > XMSS and Gtk.
Unfortunately, superkaramba is comprised of only one binary, /usr/bin/superkaramba, so we can't split out XMMS support into a separate package (if it were possible, we'd definitely do it). For now, keeping XMMS support is probably a good idea, since XMMS is still a popular package. But it is declining in popularity, and perhaps when KDE4 is uploaded post-Etch we'll finally disable it. Until then, you'll have to have XMMS if you want superkaramba. But XMMS and gtk-1.2 don't take up much space, and the Menu Editor can be used to remove XMMS from the KDE menu, so it shouldn't really be a problem for users. Cheers, Christopher Martin
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