From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-fx0-f47.google.com ([209.85.161.47]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qnokw-0001Nj-I5 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:25:50 +0200 Received: by fxg11 with SMTP id 11so4888789fxg.6 for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.34.130 with SMTP id l2mr1267036bkd.170.1312190490768; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fensuse.internal.dresearch-fe.de (pd95cb174.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.92.177.116]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i14sm1253553bkd.6.2011.08.01.02.21.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E367018.7020709@dresearch-fe.de> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:21:28 +0200 From: Steffen Sledz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4E364EB1.8050800@dresearch-fe.de> <1312189251.30326.498.camel@phil-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1312189251.30326.498.camel@phil-desktop> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2 Cc: Koen Kooi Subject: Re: unnecessary dependencies? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:25:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 01.08.2011 11:00, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 08:58 +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote: >> We are working on an application which requires libgssdp. >> >> libgssdp requires libsoup, libsoup inherits gnome, gnome inherits gtk-icon-cache, gtk-icon-cache rdepends hicolor-icon-theme. So this icon theme (probably a lot more gnome stuff) unnecessarily allocates place in our image (we do not have a GUI). :( >> >> Are these deps really necessary? > > It sounds as though libsoup possibly shouldn't be inheriting gnome. Can > you figure out whether gtk-icon-cache is actually doing anything useful > in this case? "libsoup is an HTTP client/server library" only. I can't really see any need for GUI componenets. -- DResearch Fahrzeugelektronik GmbH Otto-Schmirgal-Str. 3, 10319 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 30 515932-237 mailto:sledz@dresearch-fe.de Fax: +49 30 515932-299 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Weber, Werner Mögle; Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg; HRB 130120 B; Ust.-IDNr. DE273952058