Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-29 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:36:15PM -0200, André Ramaciotti da Silva wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:06:34PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200 > > schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > > > > > I know, I know, they always come back. :P > > > My Arch installation is

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-24 Thread Allan McRae
Brendan Long wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:56 +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote: 2009/11/24 Ng Oon-Ee : On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:19 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: I'm actually using Arch primarily because it's so little work to make your own packages (I realized that no distro is going to have every p

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-24 Thread Brendan Long
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:56 +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote: > 2009/11/24 Ng Oon-Ee : > > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:19 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: > > > >> > >> I'm actually using Arch primarily because it's so little work to make > >> your own packages (I realized that no distro is going to have every >

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-24 Thread Gergely Imreh
2009/11/24 Ng Oon-Ee : > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:19 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: > >> >> I'm actually using Arch primarily because it's so little work to make >> your own packages (I realized that no distro is going to have every >> package I want, although Arch has most of them). In most cases bui

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:19 -0700, Brendan Long wrote: > > I'm actually using Arch primarily because it's so little work to make > your own packages (I realized that no distro is going to have every > package I want, although Arch has most of them). In most cases building > the next version of a

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Brendan Long
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:17 +0100, hollun...@gmx.at wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:49:19 +0100 > Heiko Baums wrote: > > > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:17:13 -0200 > > schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > > > > > I don't want to flame, but that's why I recently moved to Gentoo. > > > Arch is one of t

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:06:34PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200 > schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > > > I know, I know, they always come back. :P > > My Arch installation is still in my HD, just in case. > > > > About disk usage, don't forget that arch keeps

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread hollunder
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:49:19 +0100 Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:17:13 -0200 > schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > > > I don't want to flame, but that's why I recently moved to Gentoo. > > Arch is one of the best distros I've used, but when you use a > > (primarily) binary distro

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:06, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200 >> And finally, yes, there are optdeps, but pacman don't handle them as >> nicely it handles obligatory dependencies. If I install an optdep as >> an explicit installed package, when I uninstall the other packag

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:46 -0200 schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > I know, I know, they always come back. :P > My Arch installation is still in my HD, just in case. > > About disk usage, don't forget that arch keeps a cache of downloaded > packages. So I don't think Gentoo is in disadvantag

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:49:19PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:17:13 -0200 > schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > > > I don't want to flame, but that's why I recently moved to Gentoo. > > Arch is one of the best distros I've used, but when you use a > > (primarily) binary d

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Pierre Chapuis
Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:46:44 -0800, Giovanni Scafora a écrit : > mplayer != everything Agreed, and mplayer is meant to be compiled on the machine on which it is used. No set of dependencies will ever make all the users happy. You should use one of the packages on the AUR for that, with Yaourt if

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:17:13 -0200 schrieb André Ramaciotti da Silva : > I don't want to flame, but that's why I recently moved to Gentoo. > Arch is one of the best distros I've used, but when you use a > (primarily) binary distro, the number of choices you have is reduced. > > I don't blame the

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Xavier
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:17 PM, André Ramaciotti da Silva wrote: > I don't want to flame, but that's why I recently moved to Gentoo. Arch is > one of the best distros I've used, but when you use a (primarily) binary > distro, the number of choices you have is reduced. > > I don't blame the devs,

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:31:37 +0200 schrieb Ionut Biru : > like i said previous better to have that feature. Removing that > feature just because _you_ don't use and _you_ want to have minimal > packages is not the way. I agree with you. It was just a question. As it's not possible to put smbclien

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread André Ramaciotti da Silva
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:31:37PM +0200, Ionut Biru wrote: > On 11/23/2009 02:24 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:54:49 +0100 > > schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > > > >> Some depends are made for convenience, you can build the packages > >> with ABS without those depends, if they don'

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/11/23, Heiko Baums : > But if I wanted to compile everything manually I would have stayed with > Gentoo. ;-) mplayer != everything -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Ionut Biru
On 11/23/2009 02:24 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:54:49 +0100 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: Some depends are made for convenience, you can build the packages with ABS without those depends, if they don't stop the program from starting remove them and add then to ignore array in pac

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:54:49 +0100 schrieb Tobias Powalowski : > Some depends are made for convenience, you can build the packages > with ABS without those depends, if they don't stop the program from > starting remove them and add then to ignore array in pacman.conf. But if I wanted to compile e

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:53:12 -0800 schrieb Giovanni Scafora : > Why do you don't fill a bug report for those packages? Because I didn't know if this is a bug and if smbclient can indeed be moved to optdepends which isn't possible as Ionut has written. Heiko

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:03:55 +0200 schrieb Ionut Biru : > can't be an optdepends. > > pacman -Rd smbclient > > mplayer > mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libsmbclient.so.0: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > smbclient is kinda important for those packa

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Ionut Biru
On 11/23/2009 01:49 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:30:50 +0800 schrieb Gergely Imreh: Anyway, this is just an observation, Arch seems to do quite well in general (thanks Maintainers:). I'll look around the repos again and might come up for some more repackaging ideas for the next

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Montag 23 November 2009 schrieb Giovanni Scafora: > 2009/11/23, Heiko Baums : > > I'm running a Linux only system, so I don't need samba. Wouldn't it be > > possible to move smbclient from depends to optdepends in the affected > > packages? > > Why do you don't fill a bug report for those pa

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Giovanni Scafora
2009/11/23, Heiko Baums : > I'm running a Linux only system, so I don't need samba. Wouldn't it be > possible to move smbclient from depends to optdepends in the affected > packages? Why do you don't fill a bug report for those packages? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http:

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-23 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:30:50 +0800 schrieb Gergely Imreh : > Anyway, this is just an observation, Arch seems to do quite well in > general (thanks Maintainers:). I'll look around the repos again and > might come up for some more repackaging ideas for the next bug > squashing day or something... I

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-22 Thread Phillip Smith
> Yes, I looked akonadi's Makefile and we can split akonadi package in > akonadi and akonadi-server easy. I'll do some try tomorrow. That would be cool, thanks :)

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-22 Thread Gergely Imreh
2009/11/23 Andrea Scarpino : > On 23/11/2009, Gergely Imreh wrote: >> Maybe because people have personal preferences, since all these >> applications are different from each other? > So don't be unhappy if they requires dependencies that aren't made for > your environment :) I'm sorry, to me this

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-22 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On 23/11/2009, Gergely Imreh wrote: > Maybe because people have personal preferences, since all these > applications are different from each other? So don't be unhappy if they requires dependencies that aren't made for your environment :) > As a comparison, looking at the Ubuntu packaging of digi

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-22 Thread Gergely Imreh
2009/11/23 Andrea Scarpino : > On 23/11/2009, Phillip Smith wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> So, there's currently a frustrating chain of dependencies: >> >> digikam -> kdepimlibs -> akonadi -> mysql >> >> So to manage my digital photos, I need a relational database >> system...! On a desktop system that I

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-22 Thread Phillip Smith
> from digiKam's description: > "Digital photo management application for KDE" > If you don't use KDE, why do you want to use a kde-based application > without KDE dependencies? The KDE part doesn't bother me... It's more the mysql. I do use Gnome, but having KDE as deps doesn't matter to me. It

Re: [arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-22 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On 23/11/2009, Phillip Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > So, there's currently a frustrating chain of dependencies: > > digikam -> kdepimlibs -> akonadi -> mysql > > So to manage my digital photos, I need a relational database > system...! On a desktop system that I don't use for development, it's > a bi

[arch-general] Frustrating Dependencies

2009-11-22 Thread Phillip Smith
Hi all, So, there's currently a frustrating chain of dependencies: digikam -> kdepimlibs -> akonadi -> mysql So to manage my digital photos, I need a relational database system...! On a desktop system that I don't use for development, it's a bit annoying to have to have mysql taking up space, do