On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:42:03PM -0400, John Thacker wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:14:55PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > > What else deps on gtk+ 1.X? > > > The other, slightly nastier problem: Several packages allow one to > build with either gtk+ or gtk2. In Core, we're building with gtk2, > but these packages have to BuildRequire: gtk+-devel, which pulls in > the rest of the gtk+ stuff, in order to compile. This is because the > various auto* scripts pull in gtk+ macros. I *think* there are some > packages still like this in Core; I know I've run into it in the last > couple months, and have gotten used to pulling in gtk+ in order to > build, then removing it, when I want to rebuild a package. > Is this just pkg-config stuff? That type of stuff can be fixed and submitted upstream pretty easily. If it's other auto* problems, I'd have to see it to know how easy it would be. In any case, if you send me a few packages to look at, I'll make a start on doing something productive about it. -Toshio
