On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 10:52:03PM -0500, Daniel Macks wrote:
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> For cases where the dependencies (NB: I'm lumping Depends and
> BuildDepends together per others' comments) are only for front ends,
> those can sometimes be spun off into separate .info files. We do have
> several successful cases of doing this kind of thing. Of course, it
> depends strongly on how intertwined the build of the front-end vs lib
> is.

I'm fairly sure that the X11 deps of openexr and libdjvulibre are both
dependencies only for the frontends, not the libraries. If this was not
the case then imagemagick-nox depending on these libraries would cause
imagemagick-nox to have a transitive dependency on X11!

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James

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