On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 03:22:20PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 03:12:58PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > > Landry Breuil <lan...@rhaalovely.net> writes: > > > > [...] > > > > > No need to LIB_DEPENDS on cairo/glib2, gtk+3 already does, > > > > Is "No need to" to be interpreted here as "should not", ie. a general > > porting recommendation? > > > > Upstream explicitely uses this: > > `pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0 glib-2.0 cairo gio-2.0` > > > > If for whatever reason our gtk+3 doesn't depend on cairo anymore the > > deps will be out of sync. And I see no problem with listing direct deps > > explicitely. This question is afaik not specific to gtk+3. > > smaller is better, but that's a matter of taste :)
Usually what _i_ do is only specifying direct deps if upstream insists on using a particular version - and that tends to bitrot over time if you forget to update it. Ie look at www/webkit's LIB_DEPENDS. But no one will yell at you for specifying gtk3/glib2/cairo, though in that particular case i really doubt gtk3 will stop using glib2 & cairo someday. Landry