insane parted deps

[Felix Miata]

# yum remove parted
...
Remove  1 Package (+110 Dependent packages)
...
O_O

e.g.
gwenview
kamera
kcalc
kde-print-manager
kdm
kmix
kwallet
kwrite
ksnapshot
okular

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:27:17 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> # yum remove parted
> ...
> Remove  1 Package (+110 Dependent packages)
> ...
> O_O
>
> e.g.
> gwenview
> kamera
> kcalc
> kde-print-manager
> kdm
> kmix
> kwallet
> kwrite
> ksnapshot
> okular

Well, that doesn't show the direct dependencies on "parted". Package
"parted" contains shared libs, which likely are linked with desktop
framework components which cannot be removed. A basic and more direct
depcheck is like this (but not with KDE):

# rpm --test --erase parted
error: Failed dependencies:
    libparted.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed) libvirt-daemon-0.10.2.1-3.fc18.x86_64
    parted is needed by (installed) libvirt-daemon-0.10.2.1-3.fc18.x86_64
    parted is needed by (installed) udisks2-2.0.0-1.fc18.x86_64

insane parted deps (not really)

[Rex Dieter]

Felix Miata wrote:
> # yum remove parted
> ...
> Remove  1 Package (+110 Dependent packages)
> ...
> O_O
>
> e.g.
> gwenview
> kamera
> kcalc
> kde-print-manager
> kdm
> kmix
> kwallet
> kwrite
> ksnapshot
> okular

In particular,

$ rpm -e parted
error: Failed dependencies:
...
        libparted.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed) 
udisks-1.0.4-8.fc18.x86_64
        libparted.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed)

So, not so insane afterall.  There's *lots* of infrastructure that uses 
upower

One could argue for splitting libparted from the pkg parted packaging (which 
is ~2.3mb in total by the way), but i'm not sure if it's worth it.

-- rex

[John5342]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Felix Miata  wrote:
> # yum remove parted
> ...
> Remove  1 Package (+110 Dependent packages)
> ...
> O_O
>
> e.g.
> gwenview
> kamera
> kcalc
> kde-print-manager
> kdm
> kmix
> kwallet
> kwrite
> ksnapshot
> okular

According to repoquery:
Most of Kde seems to be taken out by parted -> udisks -> kdelibs -> All of kde.
Most of gnome seems to have a similar problem but through parted ->
udisks2 -> gvfs.

Since i don't know a lot about udisks so whether these dependencies
are sane or not is for someone else to decide.