Re: [E-devel] Embrace spec and make dist patch

[Didier C. <did...@gm...>]

On 8/31/05, Michael Jennings <e-...@ka...> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 August 2005, at 16:25:14 (+0900),
> Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> >
> > weird. its a build requires. it should not think this. this is not a go=
od thing
> > imho. can you turn it OFF? a BUILD may require edje-devel but runtime i=
t may
> > not need it.
>=20
> No, it's not a good thing.  Fortunately, it's not true either.  :-)

Damn I should have specified "If needed" ! This makes more sense to
the explanation.
Thanks to Ignacio and Michael for enlightening this matter.

>=20
> > hmm rpm has gone downhill - this above is bad imho. there are cases
> > where it will be wrong.
>=20
> Then it's a good thing it doesn't actually happen, eh? :)  RPM will
> only pull in run-time dependencies based on build-time dependencies if
> it detects a run-time dependency as a result (like library linkage).
>=20

Precisely. :-) That's why we DON'T need obvious Requires. If let' s
say you' ve placed edje-devel as BuildRequires and the program needs
edje to run, it will know that. You don' t need to overstate that. If
it doesn' t need edje to run, it will simply not *pull* out the
package.


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With kind regards,
Didier.

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Didier F.B Casse
PhD candidate, Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS)
National University of Singapore.