On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 01:30:46PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > I guess you know that lesstif MUST NOT depend on libGLw, because you'd > otherwise introduce a circular dependency, because libGLw depends on > Motif. I know. But this is only a devel dependency for a check. So the real dependency is libGLw-devel depending on lesstif-devel, but for the check, libGLw-devel also has to be buildrequired by lesstif (for other reasons, currently the lesstif tests are not run, so the dependency is really useless today, but let's do as if the tests were run). There is a chicken and egg issue, but it was solved by the fact that libGLw-devel compiled against openmotif was available when lesstif was submitted. Rex insisted on having this BuildRequires, I am not convinced that it is right. Indeed it implies that when rebuilding libGLw one have to rebuild lesstif to check that the check is still right, and when rebuilding lesstif one has to rebuild libGLw as a classical dependency, and then rebuild lesstif one more time to verify that the check still pass. And also when libGLw-devel is broken because of lesstif, lesstif cannot be rebuilt and the chicken and egg situation reappears. Doing things cleanly would imply moving the check from lesstif to libGLw. -- Pat -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
