On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 22:06 -0400, Robert Marcano wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 8:07 PM Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Robert Marcano wrote: > > > > > For example, someone developing against krb5-devel for a GSSAPI client, > > > probably doesn't need openssl-devel installed, that they are linking > > > against Kerberos doesn't means they use the same crypto library > > > directly, they could use nss for example. > > > > I think you're most likely going to need to deal with this on a > > case-by-case > > basis. In this specific example, find out for sure if "probably doesn't > > need openssl-devel" is entirely accurate or not, and take appropriate > > measures. > > > > Not sure a case-by-case basis will always work, for example I force removed > compat-openssl10-devel (rpm - e compat-openssl10-devel --nodeps) that is > pulled by nodejs-devel, and I am able to link against NodeJS libraries, > because the modules I need to build doesn't use OpenSSL. So > compat-openssl10-devel should not be a hard dependency for nodejs-devel. > Sadly the package maintainer think this is fine [1]. > > A small packaging guideline change about reducing *-devel hard dependencies > when they aren't always required could help. You're treating complicated situations as if they were simple, which is always a bad idea. Reality does not always map perfectly to "requires" or "does not require". Stephen explained in the bug why the dependency is present, and it's a good reason: if it's not there, Node modules could well get built such that they don't work properly. You're not making a very good case for why this dependency is wrong, let alone why there should be a guideline saying it shouldn't exist. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/RGTIBQXQQBVJK5Q6HKIBXQKBWXIW4WTV/
