On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:54:38 +0100, Mario Blättermann wrote: > [...] we force packagers to validate their appdata files, we pull in GTK3 > for all GUI-based packages, regardless of whether they really need GTK3 to > build. That's strange. Imagine, someone wants to rebuild a Qt based package on > his/her local system for some reasons, and GTK is needed therefore. This is > confusing. Hyperbole, IMHO. It doesn't pull in gtk3-devel but just the run-time lib. How does that confuse anyone? You only need to run the tool not do anything with the GUI lib. Other tools pull in other framework/backend libs runtime. desktop-file-validate pulls in GLib. That's not a GUI lib, but that doesn't mean only "unwanted GUI libs" are "not nice". > What about to make the appdata validation conditional, while keeping > it enabled by default? $ ldd /usr/bin/appstream-util |wc -l 82 $ ldd /usr/bin/appstream-util |grep -i libx|wc -l 27 $ ldd /usr/bin/appstream-util|grep drm libdrm.so.2 => /lib64/libdrm.so.2 (0x00007fdb0ee0b000) It could be that most of those are just because it relinks with everything libappstream-glib.so.1 is linked with already. I doubt it needs all those lib APIs directly. It would not be the first time redundant libs are added to the compiler linker options somewhere. But even then, it's just a tool, and the most one could do is examine it and link only the stuff it really uses directly. And do the same for libappstream-glib and similar libs. -- Today you're focused on GTK, tomorrow you would be confused by the tool also pulling in something else. Not worth it, IMO. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
