On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:22:36 +0100, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > Due to the fact that -devel packages have no *automatic* dependencies > added to them, there is no significant dependency structure in them. > This makes getting the right BuildRequires for the packages nearly > impossible. This issue and the solution Mandrake chose to implement are > documented here: > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmDevelDependencies Fetching dependencies from pkgconfig templates is missing on that page. Pkgconfig has an own dependency chain. When a -devel package gets installed and contains support for pkgconfig, pkg-config --list-all should not fail due to a broken chain of dependencies. The package should require every [-devel] package needed to complete the dependencies listed in the pkgconfig file. --
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