To make it short: most people can execute

| # yum install libextractor-plugins

to install a full-featured 'libextractor' library. By executing

| # yum install libextractor-plugins-base

instead of, only base plugins will installed. This costs some
functionality (because some filetypes will not be supported) but
it avoids expensive dependencies.

It is possible to install only a subset of the expensive plugins (and
their dependencies), too.


The libextractor library is split into the following Fedora packages:

* 'libextractor' ... the main package containing only the base library
                     and small utilities.

* 'libextractor-devel'
                 ... contains the usual development stuff

* 'libextractor-plugins'
                 ... this is a meta package which brings in all available
                     plugins shipped by the upstream project

* 'libextractor-plugins-base'
                 ... a set of plugins which require only a minimal
                     amount of foreign libraries

* 'libextractor-plugins-XXX'
                 ... plugins which support certain filetypes but have
                     additional dependencies


Please report (packaging-related) bugs at http://bugzilla.redhat.com;
Enrico Scholz is the author of this document.