On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 06:16 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> [ Forwarded from LFS-dev ]
> Richard A Downing wrote:
> > I just noticed that gtk+-2.8.6 doesn't say it needs glib-2.8.3 or am I
> > missing something here?  I'm sure it used to be a required dep.
> 
> I always thought this was strange, too, but there is not explicitly a 
> check for glib-2.x in gtk+-2.x.  It's more implied through the check for 
> pango and atk which depend on glib.

gtk+-2.x explicitly checks for at least glib-2.0, atk, pango and cairo.
And IMO these should all be added explicitly as required deps to the
BLFS page as "hidden dependencies" can be nasty, especially when
dependencies of dependencies change...

Jürg
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