Remove unused dependencies #7
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ZLIB is now required only for libppd.
Avahi is now used only in cups-browsed.
We don't use freetype API since dropping pdftoopvp, we don't have to require it explicitly. Freetype is fontconfig's dependency, so fontconfig should bring in Freetype (since Freetype is used for building the fontconfig...)
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Thanks a lot, these dependencies got so many with the years, it is easy to overlook some of them ... |
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Np! :) I write comments for BuildRequires in my spec file, so I can easier track what is no longer needed - maybe do a bullet list in INSTALL file for dependencies with explanation why they are needed? It won't prevent the situation when you remove a feature and don't read the INSTALL, but at least maintainers can sometimes check the deps and when they see the dep in INSTALL and git says the feature which needed the dependency is gone, they can report it. |
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Could you add these comments which you put into BuildRequires also to an appropriate place in the source code documentations of the OpenPrinting repos, into README.md or INSTALL or so? Thanks in advance. |
Avahi, Glib, Freetype and Zlib are used in other projects or removed as whole.