[oe] unnecessary dependencies?

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 08:58 +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> We are working on an application which requires libgssdp.
> 
> libgssdp requires libsoup, libsoup inherits gnome, gnome inherits gtk-icon-cache, gtk-icon-cache rdepends hicolor-icon-theme. So this icon theme (probably a lot more gnome stuff) unnecessarily allocates place in our image (we do not have a GUI). :(
> 
> Are these deps really necessary?

It sounds as though libsoup possibly shouldn't be inheriting gnome.  Can
you figure out whether gtk-icon-cache is actually doing anything useful
in this case?

p.