On Oct 13, 2006, Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> /me wonders if his reasoning breaks if both libfoo and libbar are in >> the same package. > no; 'libbar.la' might be used by a 'libbaz.la' loadable module which is > added to the repository a year later by a different maintainer. Not if libbar.la was not installed. > Exactly. Because (usually) main packages (e.g. this with 'libfoo.la') > must not depend on -devel packages, the required 'libbar.la' must not be > in -devel but in a main package. But if you add the .la to the main package, that brings in references to the .so and .a files, if present, so you'd then have to add the undesired dependency. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Secretary for FSF Latin America http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
