Hi. On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:15:34 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
> Don't you have gstreamer installer? Only that thing as a recommended dependency to webkit-gtk: $ dpkg -l gstream* | grep ii ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:amd64 Not that I need gstreamer. Once upon a time some kind soul told me about mplayer, and since then it's the only thing I ever use for video. sox and mpd play all audio I ever need to play. > I am interested in how to remove gconf2 and all it's family from my > system, since I do not understand why I need a configuration system for > stuff which is only used to play things in my web-browsers... which > anyway needs flash-player to really play stuff. (it's not the only > dependency I would like to remove, but it would be a good start. There > also tons of dependency for libsdl which do not seems to make lot of > sense) The way I see it, these guys (Maintainers of GStreamer packages) thought it is a good idea that gstreamer should depend on gconf (there was some bug about it, but I forgot the number). Next, they split gconf dependency to gstreamer0.10-gconf … only to make said package a dependency to gstreamer0.10-plugins-base. As for removing that stuff, there's a neat trick I currently use: $ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: libdconf0 Pin: release n=wheezy Pin-priority: -1 Package: libgconf2-4 Pin: release n=wheezy Pin-priority: -1 By itself, it doesn't magically remove all that depends on that libraries, but prevents installing them. And gconf is not a 'configuration system'. To quote these ppl themselves (see /usr/share/doc/libgconf2-4/README): GConf is a configuration database system, functionally similar to the Windows registry but lots better. That alone IMO should be the reason do not install that thing ever. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131023213359.f1b483af53f82c6fdc5d3...@gmail.com
