dependency hell

[Carl R. Powers]

Thanks, Nick.  I've deleted the gtkmm2 package and will see how long I
can get along without it.  And yes, I blame the developers for letting one
package thru that mandates the installation of 100 megabytes of otherwise
unused software.  Not your fault.

Carl Powers
<powers at trac.wsmr.army.mil>

Nick Hudson wrote:

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>Unfortunatly there isnt as far as the glibmm module goes.  So far I
>havent found a way to turn off glibmm using doxygen.  SO thats why it
>depends on it, sorry about that but I would blame the developers for
>making it build with it.
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>Nick
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>On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 16:07 -0600, Carl R. Powers wrote:
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>>I just tried to do a lunar update.  Among packages to be updated was gtkmm2.
>>That's no problem, it's installed.  Only now, glibmm, which wasn't 
>>installed, has
>>apparently been added as a required depend.  That's reasonable.  Only,
>>  glibmm requires doxygen
>>  doxygen requires teTeX
>>  teTeX requires w3c-libwww
>>  w3c-libwww requires teTeX-texmf.
>>Is there any way of avoiding this proliferation of packages I don't 
>>want, short
>>of getting rid of the one that starts the chain?  I deleted glibmm from 
>>the gtkmm2
>>DEPENDS file, but lin is still getting it from somewhere else.
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>>TIA.
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>>Carl Powers
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