On 04/23/2009 08:35 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Ben Boeckel wrote:
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> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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>> I want to remove kdeedu-marble, having no use for it,
> but yum tells me
>> this leads to removing digikam as well.
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>> What has a mapping application go to do with a photo
> manager?
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> Digikam can show where a photo was taken on a map if
> the EXIF tags are there. It should probably be an
> optional dependency, but that'd be something for
> upstream to sort out most likely.
correct, GEOIP tagging feature, which is linked into the application, so
it's not possible to remove the hard dep (without losing the feature).
<rant>
Let me just say for the record that this sucks. kdeedu-marble is a 30MB
download which I have no intention of using, not even for geo-tagging,
i.e. I don't care about losing the feature and I conjecture that this is
likely to be true of a great many users. It's absurd that this isn't
optional. I get it that it's an upstream problem, so my complaint is
really directed at the KDE folks, but still.
</rant>
I guess I'll register my displeasure on the KDE BZ.
poc