tag 237605 + wontfix thanks On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:51:49AM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Package: kdemultimedia-dev > Version: 4:3.2.1-1 > Severity: wishlist > > > Hi, > > IMHO noatun really sucks and I want to get it off my system. > However that also removed kdemultimedia-dev. That doesn't look right to me, > though. Maybe you can > either > split package noatun to e.g. noatun and libnoatun and have kdemultimedia-dev > only depend on the latter > or > split files out of kdemultimedia-dev into noatun-dev > or > simply put _all_ files belonging to noatun into package noatun > > IMHO installing 2.6MB just for three .so symlinks is really not practical as I > thought that one goal of the whole splitting was to be able to keep an > installation small. > > I guess, the same could be said about the other "front-end" packages that > kdemultimedia-dev depends on: kmid, kmix, krec, kscd > Although those four together(!) are only 1MB, so killing the noatun dependency > is more important.
we can't do that, because:
* it'll mean bloating the number of -dev packages for kde packages
(one thing that the ftpmaster won't allow to do)
* most of those -dev packages would have complex interdependencies
(in term of includes) and that upgrades would be a pain.
I tag the bug wontfix.
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