Bad recommended package lists

Marcus Meissner meissner at suse.de
Tue Apr 29 06:08:44 CDT 2008


On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:53:51PM +0200, Francois Gouget wrote:
> 
> http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages
> 
> The Wiki's Recommended Packages list contains a lot of incorrect 
> recommendations. I have already cleaned up the Debian section, but there 
> seems to be a lot of copy/paste that spread the bad information to the 
> RPM distros. So we'd need volunteers for pruning and updating these 
> lists for Fedora and RHEL / WBEL.
> 
> 
> Here's a list of the suspicious or downright bad package 
> recommendations I spotted:

Quite a number of them seems just be indirect dependencies, except perhaps
isdn4k-utils.

In the openSUSE buildservice I have for Fedora:

audiofile cups-devel fontforge freeglut-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel
libxslt-devel prelink libgphoto2 libxml2-devel pkgconfig libjpeg-devel
audiofile-devel bison flex ncurses-devel openssl-devel openldap-devel
libicu-devel lcms-devel freetype-devel isdn4k-utils-devel alsa-lib-devel
hal-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel imake xorg-x11-utils libXt-devel
libXrandr-devel libXrender-devel libXinerama-devel libXi-devel
fontconfig-devel libXcomposite-devel libXcursor-devel libXxf86vm-devel
xorg-x11-proto-devel xorg-x11-xtrans-devel

But even these might be too many ;)

Ciao, Marcus



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