[csw-maintainers] Detecting the dependency on CSWdbus (was: Re: evince-2.24.2 in experimental)

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Roger Håkansson
<roger.hakansson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
>>
>> One idea would be to assume that whatever needs CSWlibdbus also needs
>> CSWdbus.  A version of that is what I did with the CSWpython-rt
>> package - just get rid of it, because it's unhelpful anyway.  There's
>> an easy way to falsify this theory: find an example of a package that
>> needs libdbus but doesn't need a running daemon.
>
> imagemagick depends on librsvg, which depends on gnomevfs2 ...


the question there is; why does an IMAGE LIBRARY, depend on a
FILESYSTEM library?!!

we should do all we can, to cut that dependency.