[oe] unnecessary dependencies?

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 11:21 +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> On 01.08.2011 11:00, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> "libsoup is an HTTP client/server library" only. I can't really see any need for GUI componenets.

Indeed, though the description alone probably isn't a strong basis on
which to make that decision.  Does it actually install any icons?  If
no, it doesn't need gtk-icon-cache.

p.