surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
Hi, While looking through the updates mail, I saw something that sounded intriguing, hamster-applet. Did a yum info query on it, then thought I'd install it to have a look. But it wanted to drag in a ridiculous number of dependencies, most of them devel packages. Surely a precompiled non-devel

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:56:30 -0400 (EDT), Mike Burger wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:49 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on which the non-devel package depends. Packages that depend on the kernel-devel packages spring to mind, but

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Mike Burger
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:49 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on which the non-devel package depends. Packages that depend on the kernel-devel packages spring to mind, but many others do, as well. It rather begs the question though:

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:49 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on which the non-devel package depends. Packages that depend on the kernel-devel packages spring to mind, but many others do, as well. It rather begs the question though: why

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Brian Morrison
Michael Schwendt wrote: I'd wager that xine has libxine statically linked and/or compiled in. No, libxine.so is just a symlink pointing to the real and versioned library file in the xine-lib package. This symlink is needed only when building software -- it's the link that makes the -lxine

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:49:13 -0400 (EDT), Mike Burger wrote: Hi, While looking through the updates mail, I saw something that sounded intriguing, hamster-applet. Did a yum info query on it, then thought I'd install it to have a look. But it wanted to drag in a ridiculous number of

Re: surely an ordinary package shouldn't depend on devel packages?

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:49:52 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: Michael Schwendt wrote: I'd wager that xine has libxine statically linked and/or compiled in. No, libxine.so is just a symlink pointing to the real and versioned library file in the xine-lib package. This symlink is needed only