On 11/30/2015 07:09 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: > >> On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 07:11 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > >>> I missed that, but I would say gedit is being erroneous by adding >>> dependencies, at least with respect to desktop-file-utils. >>> >> >> I added the dependency for a new enough desktop-file-utils build >> because the desktop-file-utils package does not contain the file >> trigger section before 0.22-6 > > Sure, but that's conceptually no different than the case where gedit owned > the scriptlet but (also) had no dependency on desktop-file-utils. > > either way, if desktop-file-utils is not present, the effect is nothing > happens. We only care about the case when desktop-file-utils *is* present > and that case already works without adding any package dependencies. Rex, do you by any chance remember why the packaging guidelines say to not add a dependency on desktop-file-utils? Does KDE not want the dependency? All I could find was https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=180899#c2 that just hand waves the reasons and only says "it was agreed that it is wrong/wasteful /.../" -- Kalev -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
