On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 15:59 -0500, Josef Whiter wrote: > Hello, > > A package that I maintain, geany, can use vte in order to have a > terminal in the editor. Now geany loads it by using the equivalent of > dl_open() on the library and then loading the symbols manually. I > recently patched geany to link in vte so it did not do this and then > submitted it upstream. Upstream rejected the patch, stating that they > do not want geany to be dependent upon libvte, hence the dl_open() > method of loading libvte, and that I shouldn't need vte-devel during the > building of geany as its not required at build time, its optional at > runtime. So my question is this, should I leave the package as it is > now, where it compiles in vte support, or should I remove vte-devel from > the BuildRequires, fix geany so it will load fedora's libvte it ships > with the vte package and make vte a Require? Geany will run perfectly > fine without vte, so I'm wondering what the appropriate course of action > would be for this situation. Thank you, > > Josef Why not keep the small patch to just s/libvte.so/libvte.so.9/ and then add an explicit dependency on libvte.so.9 ? -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
