[Kbabel] Odd dependancies on Fink

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

This is what I got when I wanted to install Kbabel with Fink on OSX:

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$ fink install kbabel
Password:
Information about 5706 packages read in 11 seconds.

fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual  
dependency. The candidates:
(1)     db42-ssl: Berkeley DB embedded database - ssl
(2)     db42: Berkeley DB embedded database - non crypto

Pick one: [1]

fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual  
dependency. The candidates:
(1)     help2man: Generates man pages from program output
(2)     help2man-perl581: Generates man pages from program output
(3)     help2man-perl584: Generates man pages from program output
(4)     help2man-perl586: Generates man pages from program output

Pick one: [1]

fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual  
dependency. The candidates:
(1)     openslp-ssl-dev: Development files for OpenSLP
(2)     openslp-dev: Development files for OpenSLP

Pick one: [1]

fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual  
dependency. The candidates:
(1)     jadetex: TeX macros implementing the TeX output from Jade/ 
OpenJade
(2)     system-tetex: Placeholder package for manually installed teTeX

Pick one: [1]

fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual  
dependency. The candidates:
(1)     lynx-ssl: Console based web browser (SSL-enabled)
(2)     lynx: Console based web browser
(3)     links-ssl: Lynx-like text WWW browser with tables
(4)     links: Lynx-like text WWW browser with tables
(5)     w3m-ssl: Upgrade package for w3m
(6)     w3m: Text-mode WWW browser with tables/frames
(7)     elinks: Development version of Links text WWW browser
(8)     elinks-ssl: Development version of Links text WWW browser

Pick one: [1]

fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual  
dependency. The candidates:
(1)     ghostscript: Interpreter for PostScript and PDF
(2)     ghostscript6: Interpreter for PostScript and PDF, v6.01
(3)     system-ghostscript6: Placeholder package for manually  
installed ghostscript 6.01
(4)     system-ghostscript8: Placeholder package for manually  
installed ghostscript 8.51
(5)     ghostscript-esp: Enhanced GNU Ghostscript with better CJK and  
printer support

Pick one: [1] 5

fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual  
dependency. The candidates:
(1)     ghostscript-fonts: Standard fonts for Ghostscript
(2)     system-ghostscript: Placeholder package for manually  
installed ghostscript
(3)     system-ghostscript6: Placeholder package for manually  
installed ghostscript 6.01
(4)     system-ghostscript8: Placeholder package for manually  
installed ghostscript 8.51

Pick one: [1]
The following package will be installed or updated:
kbabel
The following 141 additional packages will be installed:
appleotffonts applesystemfonts arts arts-dev arts-shlibs aspell-dev  
audiofile
audiofile-bin audiofile-shlibs autoconf2.5 automake1.6 automake1.7  
automake1.8
compress-zlib-pm586 daemonic db42-ssl db42-ssl-shlibs dbus-dev dbus- 
qt3-dev
dbus-qt3-shlibs dbus-shlibs default-icon-theme docbook-dsssl-nwalsh  
docbook-dtd
docbook-utils docbook-xsl esound esound-bin esound-common esound- 
shlibs flex-devel
fltk-x11 fltk-x11-shlibs fondu fontconfig2-dev fontconfig2-shlibs  
freetype219
freetype219-shlibs gd2 gd2-shlibs gdbm3 gdbm3-shlibs gettext-dev  
ghostscript-esp
ghostscript-fonts gimp-print7-dev gimp-print7-shlibs glib glib-shlibs  
glib2 glib2-dev
glib2-shlibs gtk-doc help2man html-parser-pm586 html-tagset-pm  
intltool ipafonts jadetex
kdebase3-unified kdebase3-unified-shlibs kdelibs3-unified kdelibs3- 
unified-dev
kdelibs3-unified-shlibs kdesdk3-base lesstif lesstif-shlibs libart2  
libart2-shlibs
libidn libidn-shlibs libjpeg libjpeg-bin libjpeg-shlibs libkpathsea4  
libkpathsea4-shlibs
libmad libmad-shlibs libogg libogg-shlibs libpng3 libpng3-shlibs  
libtiff libtiff-bin
libtiff-shlibs libusb libusb-shlibs libvorbis0 libvorbis0-shlibs  
libwww libwww-bin
libwww-pm586 libwww-shlibs libxml2 libxml2-bin libxml2-shlibs libxslt  
libxslt-bin
libxslt-shlibs lynx-ssl m4 make openexr openexr-dev openjade openmotif3
openmotif3-shlibs openslp-ssl-dev openslp-ssl-shlibs opensp4 opensp4- 
dev opensp4-shlibs
openssl097 openssl097-dev openssl097-shlibs pcre pcre-bin pcre-shlibs  
pkgconfig qt3
qt3-designer qt3-doc qt3-linguist qt3-shlibs readline5 readline5-shlibs
remap-bad-apple-keys scrollkeeper sgml-entities-iso8879 sgmls-pm  
system-openssl-dev
t1lib5 t1lib5-shlibs tetex-base tetex-texmf texi2html texinfo uri- 
pm586 xdg-base
xfontpath xml-parser-pm586
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

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Since all the KDE packages are in unstable, I found myself having to  
install from source, which took approximately 24h.

I wonder if Kbabel really requires all those packages to run...

Jean-Christophe Helary