Bug 152479 - compiz has dependency on control-center2, which pulls in a lot of stuff not needed in KDE
Summary: compiz has dependency on control-center2, which pulls in a lot of stuff not n...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 4
Hardware: All Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: David Reveman
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Reported: 2006-02-21 13:56 UTC by Joachim Werner
Modified: 2006-03-02 14:36 UTC (History)
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Description Joachim Werner 2006-02-21 13:56:55 UTC 
compiz has a dependency on control-center2. Installing control-center2 pulls in >35 MB of stuff, including metacity, which is most probably not needed.

This should be fixed especially for the KDE case. In a GNOME installation those dependency issues are not so obvious because most of the packages involved are installed by default.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-02-21 14:05:35 UTC 
If those packages are required for a gnome-environment, it wouldn't be advisable to remove the deps because they would be broken in the Gnome environment then. However, the maintainer shall decide.

The PDB tells me the maintainer is davidr@novell.com, however I cannot find a person in bugzilla by that name. Do you know who maintains this package?
Comment 2 Joachim Werner 2006-02-21 14:27:14 UTC 
David Reveman is the maintainer of compiz and xgl. David's bugzilla e-mail is dreveman@novell.com. I'll assign the bug to David now.

The current dependency of compiz on control-center2 is definitely a problem. If control-center2 is really needed for compiz to work (which I doubt), we need to get control-center2's dependencies down. If I install compiz as my new display manager, why should I want to install metacity (to name just one example) at the same time?
Comment 3 David Reveman 2006-02-21 15:13:13 UTC 
compiz package can easily be split up into a compiz/compiz-gnome and compiz-kde package. Only reason I haven't done this yet is lack of time.

Only reason for requiring control-center2 is that compiz will install a gnome-window-preferences module if it's available. It's probably fine to remove this dependency and just make it a build requirement.
Comment 4 David Reveman 2006-03-02 14:36:29 UTC 
compiz package no longer requires control-center2.