[Question] Which build dependencies can I remove

[Chris Abraham]

Prerequisites

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Describe the question

I installed Vocal by manually compiling from source (because the Flatpak takes too much storage space). I installed the following build depencies as given in readme.md. Would somebody be able to advise me which dependencies I can remove without breaking the application? Would they be the packages ending with -dev?

    libsecret-1-dev
    libclutter-gst-3.0-dev
    sqlite3
    libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
    libgee-0.8-dev
    gir1.2-granite-1.0
    libgranite-dev
    libgranite5

Platform Information

Please share as many of the following details as possible:

• Linux distrubution: Ubuntu
• OS version: 20.10
• Desktop environment: Gnome

• I'm using the latest version from git that I've manually compiled

[Nathan Dyer]

Hello @abrac,

We've re-written most of the application from the ground up, and dependencies are still a bit "fluid" at the moment, but with our recent changes, you can remove the following dependencies from your list:

• libclutter-gst-3.0-dev
• gir1.2-granite-1.0
• libgranite-dev
• libgranite5

We have removed Granite as a dependency, and clutter is no longer needed because we've (temporarily?) removed video support. I hope that helps!