Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (122 mails)

[Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxx>]

Adrian Schröter escribió:

> I know that our packages are inconsistend in this regard atm.

Yes they are, the bigger issues regarding -devel package Requires are:

a) lack of needed dependencies (this is not a that big issue currently)

b) in the other extreme, lots and lots of bloat, this is a massive one,
a hell lot of work,generally caused by
 - libtool "la" files wanting Requires that the library in question dont
really use at all.
  - pkgconfig scripts that are wrong (f.e that add tons of libraries to
"Libs" instead of using "Libs.private" where appropiate)
  - foobar-config "--libs" option frecuently injects huge amount a
unneded stuff.






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Cristian Rodríguez R.
Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
Research & Development
http://www.opensuse.org/

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