Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 08:44 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
All that is different in this thread with regards too gnome is the
suggestion to automaticly generate these exrtra versioned deps buildtime.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to do this in a reliable
and generic fashion except in the cases where we're helped by the
upstream library maintainers[1].
If you were to automatically do some sort of dep on, eg, 'pkg-config
--modversion gtk+-2.0', then you could end up with a newer requirement
than you really need[2]
Jeremy
[1] eg, by using symbol versioning at which point
findProvides/findRequires actually will do a requirement on the
versioned form of the library; see glibc deps
True, but this isn't needed with gtk / gnome because they don't have
different versions of symbols, only new symbols, so from upstreams pov
this will be extra work / worries without much gain.
[2] Right now, it would say I need gtk+ 2.10.2 for anything built
against gtk2. Realistically, many of them would work for pre gtk+ 2.10
(as long as they're not using new gtk+ features) but they'd definitely
work with say gtk+ 2.10.1
You could use sed / awk / perl / whatever to remove the latest .x, then
this might actually be a good idea for gnome/gtk. I don't think its wise
to use packages build for FC-x on FC-(x-1), and besides that scenario
the requires version should always match the available version I think.
Regards,
Hans
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