-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thibaut Cousin wrote: | Le 21 avr. 08 à 17:51, Alexander Hansen a écrit : |> This is a new pet peeve for me, especially when validating packages |> from |> the tracker. Typically it happens due to a BuildDepend on doxygen, |> which in turn depends on TeX. And I don't know how often that is |> actually necessary: some packages check for doxygen and graphviz, |> but a |> normal build doesn't _use_ them. |> |> I don't have time just yet, but at some point it might be worth |> auditing |> packages to see how many of these BuildDepends are spurious. | | | Could you help me with one case, please? | I used the system-texlive.info suggested previously on this thread, | and the package installs successfully (I have TeXLive 2007 installed). | | But after that, I tried to install kdelibs3-unified. Among its | dependencies, it pulls tetex-base and tetex-texmf with it. | I edited system-texlive.info, added those packages to the | "provides" section and reinstalled it. Fink reports tetex-base as a | "provided" package, so it works. | But kdelibs3 still pulls the real tetex-base package as a | dependency... | What am I missing? Why can't kdelibs3 be happy with the provided | tetex-base? | | Thanks in advance, | Something in the chain may carry a versioned dependency on tetex-base, which Provides: can't handle, as it doesn't do versioning. Blame Debian for that. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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