From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 47479@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:30:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGQJAOETA3+YleQT@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnto1cms.fsf@netris.org>
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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-31 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-29 16:33 bug#47479: inkscape retains a reference to imagemagick, even though it is in native-inputs Maxime Devos
2021-03-29 21:16 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-30 7:19 ` Efraim Flashner
2021-03-30 8:55 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-30 12:02 ` Efraim Flashner
2021-03-30 15:38 ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-30 22:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-31 5:30 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-03-31 7:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2021-04-06 14:15 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-01-22 1:15 ` Maxim Cournoyer
[not found] ` <handler.47479.D47479.170588611628229.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2024-01-22 4:07 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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