Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (124 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le lundi 26 janvier 2009, à 21:22 +0530, Suman Manjunath a écrit :
> On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 15:48 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le lundi 26 janvier 2009, à 15:26 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> > > I'll continue at some point this week, but people should feel free to
> > > finish the work ;-)
> >
> > I forgot to mention -- a few packages fail to build. For some, it's only
> > because it's an old version (gnome-utils, eg). For others, it's only a
> > directory ownership issue (most probably on /usr/share/gnome/help that
> > is owned by libgnome).
> >
> > For this second issue, I was wondering what to do. I'm not really happy
> > with having all packages owning the same directory, but it's bad to
> > require libgnome too.
>
> I must ask why it'd be bad? It would be a "BuildRequires" and not
> "Requires" and so unless a .so of the dependent package actually
> requires a .so provided by libgnome, it wouldn't be automatically pulled
> in by RPM either. 

Hrm, you also need the Requires, else the packages will fail to install.
Or am I missing something?
Also, removing the libgnome BuildRequires makes things build faster
(because they don't have to wait for libgnome).

[...]

> dunno about others, but 
>
> /usr/share/gtk-doc
> /usr/share/gtk-doc/html 
>
> are certainly meant to be owned by gtk-doc :-)

But you don't need gtk-doc installed to see the help in devhelp :-) So
should it really be owned by gtk-doc?

Vincent

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