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bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it i
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Leo Famulari |
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bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs |
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Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:30:40 -0400 |
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:48:16PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> I don't think we can remove the old Inkscape, because 'inkscape' is an
> input of 'dblatex/stable', which 'gtk-doc/stable' depends on.
>
> There might or might not be other reasons to keep an older version of
> 'inkscape' around, but either way, if 'gtk-doc/stable' depends on
> Inkscape, I think we'd better have an 'inkscape/stable' too, so that our
> 'inkscape' package can be freely updated on 'master'.
>
> Going forward, if it turns out that Inkscape is not truly needed as an
> input to 'dblatex/stable', and moreover, if _nothing_ deep in our stack
> truly needs to depend on Inkscape, then we could perhaps eliminate
> 'inkscape/stable' altogether. However, that would need to happen on
> either 'core-updates' or 'staging' (or similar), because changing
> 'dblatex/stable' entails too many rebuilds.
>
> What do you think?
I didn't realize / remember that Inkscape was used that deep in the
package graph. I agree, we should delay this change, at least until a
rebuild cycle.
I do think it's suboptimal that an end-user application like Inkscape
is depended on by so many packages...
- bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs, Maxime Devos, 2021/03/29
- bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs, Mark H Weaver, 2021/03/29
- bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs, Efraim Flashner, 2021/03/30
- bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs, Mark H Weaver, 2021/03/30
- bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs, Efraim Flashner, 2021/03/30
- bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs, Leo Famulari, 2021/03/30
- bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs, Mark H Weaver, 2021/03/30
- bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs,
Leo Famulari <=
- bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs, Mark H Weaver, 2021/03/31