Robert Marcano wrote: > On 08/13/2018 09:12 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Robert Marcano wrote: >> >>> On 08/12/2018 12:46 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >>>> Robert Marcano wrote: >>>> >>>>> And thinking about it, a lot *-devel packages interdependencies should >>>>> be Recommends and not Requires >>>> >>>> You keep saying this, I'd like to see some evidence to support that. >>> >>> Example below. why do I need all these dependencies, when I only link >>> directly with gtk3 widgets? >> >> headers is the usual reason. > > Yes, read your other email about headers and Requires.private. On > another email I found another example, where no headers are referenced > (copy the relevant info here), but I don't think it is easy to detect > those cases only if pkgconfig's Requires.private is filtered > > # rpm -q --requires krb5-devel | grep libselinux-devel > libselinux-devel > > # rpm -ql krb5-devel | grep \\.h$ | xargs grep -l selinux > <None> > > # grep Requires.private /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libselinux.pc > Requires.private: libsepol libpcre2-8 Right, so I'll repeat my original recommendation. These issues likely warrant investigation on a case-by-base basis, and when/if extraneous dependencies are found... lobby to get them fixed (file a bug, pull request, etc...) -- Rex _______________________________________________ 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/GQREHEKKPRZEGUONXDGTJZU2FKJ6EYSR/
