Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (536 mails)

[Simon Lees <sflees@xxxxxxx>]

On 17/05/18 21:47, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Mai 17 2018, Robert Munteanu <robert.munteanu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > As an openSUSE user I find that third party applications that provide
> > RPM packages work most of the time, and sometimes need little
> > depedendency tweaks. For instance ( presumably due to the way Fedora
> > packages are built ) the Slack RPM package requires libappindicator,
> > but the openSUSE package only providers libappindicator1.
>
> Why does the package require libappindicator?  The automatic dependency
> generator of rpm would generate a dependency on
> libappindicator.so.1()(64bit), which is provided by the library packages
> no matter how they are called.
>
> Andreas.

Because they do, I guess the upstreams aren't rpm packaging experts,
libappindicator is probably the biggest culprit from memory its not just
Slack that has this issue I have found others, however I do not remember
what they were.

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