Removing automatically created blocker on bug 693547. The problem however is the same.

From a 40,000ft point of view, I don't think it's unreasonable for gnome-desktop3 to pull in other core GNOME deps. I'm assuming an app that depends on gnome-desktop3 wants to be put in xfce but I'm not sure that's a good idea.

> (In reply to comment #2)
> From a 40,000ft point of view, I don't think it's unreasonable for
> gnome-desktop3 to pull in other core GNOME deps.

Not for gnome-desktop(3) but for the things that depend on it because they require libgnome-desktop. There is no reason why e.g. icewm-gnome (support for GNOME menus in IceWM), cheese or nautilus etc. need to require *everything* that is in the gnome-desktop(3) package *plus* it's deps. If I just install cheese in a desktop but GNOME, I will never never see gnome-about or the gnome-desktop wallpapers.

gnome-desktop and gnome-desktop3 both have a lot of noarch data. Even worse are the depende
> I'm assuming an app that
> depends on gnome-desktop3 wants to be put in xfce but I'm not sure that's a
> good idea.

Sorry, I think I did not explain the problem well enough: Nothing in Xfce
depends on gnome-desktop(3) or libgnome-desktop-{2,3}. But stuff in the Xfce Spin does. PackageKit is Fedora's default package manager and gnome-packagekit now depends on control-center (which depends on libgnome-desktop). gnome-bluetooth is pulled in through bluez because it provides dbus-bluez-pin-helper (and depends on libgnome-desktop, too).

gnome-desktop(3) and it's dependencies add ~ 40 MB to the Xfce and LXDE spin while the libraries that are actually needed are just a few KB. And it's not only the spins that save a lot of overhead, but also many GNOME apps. Last but not least our overall distro saves a lot of space because the gnome-desktop(3)-data package could be noarch. libgnome-desktop and gnome-about are the only arch dependent parts of gnome-desktop, the rest is noarch.

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Reopening, this time against rawhide so it doesn't get closed again.