Patrice Dumas wrote: > 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. I'm pretty much convinced at this point that it is not right. You certainly have my blessing to do what you think is best, probably dropping BR: libGLw-devel at this point, at least for now, until a better solution presents itself. -- Rex -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
