Re: [Gnumed-devel] missing dependencies in gnumed 0.2.8.6 packages

[Florian Hubold]

Karsten Hilbert schrieb:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:35:42AM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote:
>
>   
> > just wanted to mention that in the newer gnumed suse src.rpm packages
> > which are used as basis for fedora and mandriva packages, there
> > are some missing dependencies.
> >     
>
> Thanks a lot for your report !
>   
No problem.
>   
> > They are openoffice.org-pyuno, xsane and xmedcon.
> > xsane should be added as requires, but xmedcon only as suggests,
> > as i understood because it's only optional.
> >     
>
> All of the above are optional as far as orderly working of
> GNUmed is concerned. Each needs to be installed if people
> want to use certain functionality but GNUmed will gracefully
> notify the user if any such functionality is invoked but
> cannot be carried out.
>
> Karsten
>   

Well, then they should be added as Suggests:
which can be used as "weak" Requires. In distros where package
management is available, this should be applied in one way or another.
I just wondered because in earlier versions these dependecies existed.
Maybe you should have a look at 
http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management/Dependencies
which gives a good overview over the available macros at least for suse.

In my tests when trying to write a letter with openoffice,
nothing happenend (no error) and then i remembered this pyuno 
dependency, installed the package and it started to work.
The xsane stuff i only added because i read on this list that problems 
can occur in some cases when xsane is not installed. And xmedcon because 
it was required for earlier versions.

Regards

Florian Hubold