K3b package requires the whole KDE 4 workspace

[Gioele Barabucci]

Binary package hint: k3b

The K3b package (version 1.68.0~alpha3-0ubuntu1) installs (with a Depends dep) the whole KDE 4 workspace, not only the pieces of workspace it really needs to have installed in order to work correctly. This means that a K3b installation brings in at least 90 MiB of files.

For example the K3b package ends up installing unneeded applications like kmenuedit, plasma-desktop, two dozen plasma widget, kwrited, kfontinst, solid-bluetooth and some screensavers.

Could the K3b package be changed to suggest additional KDE workspace applications with a Recommends dep instead of a Depends dep?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 23 13:36:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: k3b (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: k3b
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1860): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1860): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:1881): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1893): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The policykit-kde stuff needs to be split out from kdebase-workspace-bin into a policykit-kde package, as it was before the PolicyKit stuff moved to kdebase.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

I should note that this change is too disruptive to do for 9.10, but can easily be done for 10.04.

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

I filed a new bug with a more informative title (#459058) for the split of policykit-kde off from kdebase-workspace-bin.

Is PolicyKit the only part of kdebase-workspace-bin that k3b requires?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Yes, that should be all K3b needs.