On December 21, 2019 9:41:46 AM GMT+01:00, Andreas Radke via arch-dev-public <[email protected]> wrote: >With this move I've "fixed" libx11 no more depending at runtime on >xorgproto package. I think no headers belong to an end user system and >the libx11 library itself doesn't depend on it. But we also ship >libx11-devel part inside the package and this indead depends on >xorgproto headers. The libx11 .pc file clearly wants to have the >headers >installed. In the past it was enough to include libx11 to also pull in >the proto headers at build time. This is now broken. Some devs call >libx11 broken though only its -devel part is. > >After some discussion on IRC these solution are possible: > >a) revert to make libx11 depend again on xorgproto headers. This is the >pragmatic way and would not need any further work. It just installs >header files to the user system that aren't needed in any way there. So >we did in the past and I don't really like it as it's not correct to >me. > >b) stay with changed libx11 and add xorgproto to packages that check >for any of its headers. This needs to be done to an amount of ~300 >packages when hitting build errors over the next time. > >c) go an unusual way here and split libx11 into libx11, libx11-devel >depending on xorgproto and maybe even libx11-xcb. This is the way >distros go that support splitting libraries. It's probably the >technical correct solution but will also require packages to >makedepend on libx11-devel and save us no work. > >Other distributions have chosen what they prefer. That a decision that >needs to be done downstream. > >I'd like to have either solution b) or c) in Arch to have a clear >and more "transient" build time dependency. I guess it may help us >also in the future when moving some day away from Xorg to its >successor. >But if majority wants solution a) back I'm fine reverting this change. > >Please vote. > >-Andy
I'm voting for b) or c). If there aren't really any further deps, personally to me it doesn't really matter too much to combine them, however for compile additions I prefer independence. btw we also have xorg-server-devel Cheers Levente
