Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (169 mails)

[Dirk Müller <dmueller@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Lubos Lunak wrote:

> -  The first question is: What is %kde4_runtime_requires actually good for?
> I would like to know the exact purpose, since it doesn't quite make sense
> to me. As far as I understand it, it is a minimal KDE version requirement,
> but this way it is specified by the repository, instead by the application
> itself.

it is supposed to pull in the KDE runtime dependencies (kdebase4-runtime and 
friends) for this particular application to function correctly, and ensure 
that at least a particular version of it is installed, namely the one that it 
was build against and likely requires it due to C++ ABI. 

> Which doesn't make sense to me for most apps, if I build an app
> with 4.2, it should work with 4.3 too.

So you're wondering about the "< 4.2.60" part in the requires? This is not 
strictly needed, we added it because we had several people who had 
KDE:KDE4:UNSTABLE:Desktop and KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop enabled as a repository 
and then the solver decided to take decisions that do not work. 

I had filed a bugreport to implement to make repositories conflict each other, 
but this was rejected, as all dependencies should be expressed in the package 
itself. therefore we added this "hack". we can remove the "<" part if that is 
the part that worries you. 

> - In order to avoid people copy&pasting the KDE macros all around, I would
> like to split them out of kde4-filesystem into kde4-macros. Then people
> wanting to use the unified way could just link this package to their KDE
> repository. This would provide an easy way to adjust the macros as
> necessary. I don't see any big problem here, except for the
> mentioned %kde4_runtime_requires needing the KDE version of the repository.

why do you need kde4-filesystem to be seperate? it is just a list of empty 
directories plus this macro file. just link this package should be enough (for 
building it does not hurt, you will only get the macros, the additional 
directories have no effect). 

This was considered but it just does not make any difference to split the 
packages, and having just one package that provides all the magic is better 
than, well. two. 

you can remove the directories from kde4-filesystem for non-suse distros if 
that is the other issue, but fedora and mandriva will also want to have those 
directories owned (mandriva for sure, not clear about fedora). 


Greetings,
Dirk
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