On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 2:34 AM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dne 28. 04. 19 v 22:55 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek napsal(a): > > Hi everyone, > > > > currently, we autogenerate a dependency on pkg-config for all rpms > > that ship a .pc file. "dnf repoquery --whatrequires /usr/bin/pkg-config" > > returns 4632 entries on my laptop. > > > > This has always felt backward to me: those packages *provide* something > > that is used by pkg-config, they don't *require* pkg-config for anything. > > As an analogy, packages with headers are read by a C compiler, but > > we don't make them require gcc, and if a package ships an .so file, we > > don't add a dependency on the linker to it. Instead, anything which wants > > to consume .pc files should simply depend on the tools that consume those > > files (pkg-config, pkgconf, or a custom re-implementation). > > > I don't think that this is completely wrong. However that dependency > should not be "Requires" but probably "Suggests". Not that we can really > benefit from "Suggests". > If it is made into a weak dependency (like Recommends or Suggests), then it doesn't show up in build roots, since we don't have weak dependencies on there. If it is Suggests, then _no one_ gets it, not even regular users... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
