On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:29:58 +0800 Didier Casse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> On 8/31/05, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:02:26 +0800 Didier Casse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > babbled: > > > > > On 8/29/05, Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Quick patch to a couple Makefile.am's in embrace to allow it to make > > > > dist cleanly, and a spec file to aid in rpm packaging. > > > > -- > > > Hi Jim, > > > Thanks. However I've a tiny remark: when you have have a > > > package X-devel in BuildRequires, then it obviously Requires X. There > > > is no need to specify the Requires. It's stating the obvious. RPMS > > > are smarter than you think. :) > > > > not necessarily - if all you need is some TOOL from the -devel. eg - you > > need edje_cc to compile .edj's as part of the build process - but you don't > > need it runtime :) :) > > Maybe I expressed myself wrongly or wass too quick at writing something. > > RPM has very good capabilities of automatically finding dependencies > for libraries. i know - it ldd's executabels and libs to find deps - so u can actually allmost always ignore these ones. rpm picks them up for you. :) > e.g if you state that package X: > > BuildRequires: edje-devel > > Only stating this would imply for a tool like yum/apt to automatically > download edje for RUNNING the application. > > i.e if you type: yum install X > Then you will get > > X depends on edje... ready to download. > 1.edje > 2. X > Proceed? weird. its a build requires. it should not think this. this is not a good thing imho. can you turn it OFF? a BUILD may require edje-devel but runtime it may not need it. > now if you want to rebuild X src rpm, then it will tell you that you > need edje-devel to rebuild it. So it comes back to me saying that > putting something like this; > > BuildRequires: edje-devel > Requires: edje > > is NOT necessary. RPM will download the non-devel package > automatically. But something like this is OK: > > BuildRequires: edje-devel > Requires: xine > > Now this means that it doesn't require xine-devel to BUILD but > requires xine to RUN. > In such a system, a yum install X would download: > > 1. edje > 2. xine > 3. X > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines#Requires hmm rpm has gone downhill - this above is bad imho. there are cases where it will be wrong. > > -- > With kind regards, > Didier. > > ------------ > Yum/apt repository for DR17/EFL: http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe > > Didier F.B Casse > PhD candidate, Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) > National University of Singapore. > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
