Re: [RULE] About the screenshot tool

[Jason Bechtel]

Ingo,

It's perfectly fine to use --nodeps in the
situation you describe.  And if you intend to
install the second package anyway, then there's
no absolutely difference between what you did and
doing

 rpm -ivh perl perl-Filter

The only problem might be if you had tried to
install perl-Filter *first* using --nodeps and
then installed perl.  It just seems like
perl-Filter must be the smaller package and
probably looks for certain perl files and
directories that wouldn't exist if perl hadn't
been installed.

Jason


---- Begin Original Message ----
 From: Ingo Lantschner <address@hidden>
Sent: Mon, 12 May 2003 22:35:52 +0200
Subject: Re: [RULE] About the screenshot tool

Hi,
I read now the different mail from this and the
other thread, which deals with the
screenshot-program 3 times - I think I understood
most of it now.  Pls.  allow me to summarize:

1. The Script screenshot_dialog works fine, both
 from the technical and usability point of view.

2. The Script depends on perl, which causes two
problems:
        a. 56 MB of files
        b. a -nodep option, which is not a good choice

So the 2.a.-problem is a small one. In the very
concrete case of the zambia:project the people
will not need perl (again: they write letters
and calculate spreadsheets, NO email, NO
network). On the other side, these machines have
1,6 GB HDs - so 56 MB is not a problem at all. So
for this case, its ok. And for the future,
isolated Workstations without LAN/WAN will not be
the aim, we are working for - so perl will be
needed anyway - I guess.

The 2.b. problem is a real problem - but it may
be possible, that in this case the problem was
sitting in front of the computer :-) I will try
to give some more details:

"rpm -i perl ..." required something like
"perl(Filter:...)"  and I could not find this
package. I even searched inside of a file, I once
created with "rpm -qpli >rpms.txt"  - nothing.
Finally I thought I will install "rpm -ivh
perl-Filter..." which requiresto install perl
before.  So perl depends on perl-Filter and
perl-Filter depends on perl. Finally I did:
        rpm -ivh perl --nodeps
        rpm -ivh perl-Filter
and anything was fine - at least for screenshooting.

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