Andreas Hanke schrieb: > This is a general problem with many GNOME packages, all hand-written > dependencies should be reviewed because they are really old cruft and > things have changed.
Note that I have another bug pending (#223387) that is partly responsible for excess dependencies among packages that use pkg-config in their build system. In short, pkg-config is configured to convert all private dependencies into public ones. This has been added years ago as a workaround for a pkg-config bug which is fixed now, so the workaround can be removed. No other major distribution still does this. It will be a hard job convincing the guys that this will not result in non-prelinkable libraries and that Linux and glibc don't need all deplibs to be linked in (seriously, they really don't need it), but I'll try it anyway ;-) Since most packages that use pkg-config happen to be GNOME packages, it should hopefully reduce the dependency problems in the GNOME area a little. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
