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From: "Richard Hughes" <hughsient(a)gmail.com>
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:32:57 PM
Subject: Another questionable dependency chain -- libreoffice-writer
installs log4j-chainsaw
If I understand the dep-chain correctly:
libreoffice-writer -> libreoffice-core -> jre ->
java-1.7.0-openjdk-headless -> apache-commons-logging -> log4j
Clarification
the actual chain is
....
java-headless->rhino->jline->jansi->hawtjni->xbean->avalon-framework->log4j
And avalon is dead project (closed at Apache) since 2004 and being actually inactive
before Fedora even existed. It's time to prune such things out of the distro.
Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team
This means I get an ugly icon called "Chainsaw" in the GNOME Software
center that when I try to remove also removes all the LibreOffice
packages.
If I actually launch the program I get a java-themed GUI full of low
level filter weirdness. Could we either clean up the depchain or split
off the actual log4j-chainsaw application off as a new subpackage?
The alternative is that I blacklist the log4j-chainsaw application in
the fedora-appstream metadata generation, which is a shame if someone
is actually wanting to search for a log viewer for java.
Thanks,
Richard.
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