On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:29:56 +1000, David Timms wrote: > >> Just trying some minimal installs of the dev tree, succesfully booting > >> to text mode (ie no X nor wm). I did a yum install gkrellm. This > >> installed lm-sensors, but didn't force or warn that an X implmentation > >> or window manager should be installed. > > > > Did it pull in (or did you have installed before) xorg-x11-libs? > > This is (usually) enough to get remote X going, you do not necessarily > > need a WM or X on the machine itself. > > > Thanks Ralf and Michael for the explanation. My minimal install did > already have: > libX11-1.0.3-4.fc6 installed. Is this the current name for what you > are referring to ? Yes, and it is one of the dependencies of gkrellm. > I found the following in the packaging guidelines- > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Requires : > === > Requires > > RPM has very good capabilities of automatically finding dependencies for > libraries and eg. Perl modules. In short, don't reinvent the wheel, but > just let rpm do its job. There is usually no need to explicitly list eg. > Requires: XFree86 when the dependency has already been picked up by rpm > in the form of depending on libraries in the XFree86 package. > === > This tells me what not to do. I can't find what I should do (other than > to include/install a .desktop file > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#desktop ) with > requires when I'm a packaging a gui app. It _does_ tell you what to do. Quote: "just let rpm do its job". When looking at "rpm --query --requires gkrellm" you will see the automatically added dependencies on X11, GTK+ v2 and many other libraries. It is built against stuff that depends on X11, and hence rpmbuild found out about such dependencies automatically. > For eg gkrellm includes: libSM-devel and not much else that would > indicate X: > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/gkrellm/devel/gkrellm.spec?root=extras&view=markup > gtk2-devel > Perhaps it is part of the {invisible} list of packages that I shouldn't > require ? Also, I was unable to find the list of packages that are in > the newer mock base build - any pointer to such a list ? Can't answer that since I find it difficult to navigate in the Fedora Extras Wiki pages. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
