[Fink-users] Changing All X11 Dependencies (was Re: X11 and aalib binaries)

[Benjamin R. <ra...@be...>]

Martin Costabel wrote:

> Benjamin Reed wrote:
> []
> 
>> if libX11 is found, Provide: x11-shlibs
>> if XDarwin or Xquartz (or whatever other X server names exist) are 
>> found, Provide: x11
>> if the headers are found, Provide: x11-dev
>>
>> and then we should update all of our BuildDepends: on x11 to instead 
>> BuildDepends: on x11-dev.
> 
> 
> This looks like the correct solution. But it would mean to change a 
> *lot* of packages. Right now a quick grep shows more than 250 packages 
> in 10.2/stable/main alone that Depend (not BuildDepend) on x11. Can your 
> virtuals have a BuildDependsOnly?

Hm, not without major changes to the way we do virtuals; right now it 
just spits out a dpkg-compatible fake package, with Provides:.

Of course, BuildDependsOnly isn't enforced at the moment, so I suppose 
it doesn't matter.  =D

I've gone ahead and implemented what I posted earlier in this thread in 
fink cvs.  We'll need to figure out how to go about implementing this 
though.

We'll basically need to change anything with a BuildDepends: on x11 to 
"BuildDepends: x11-dev, fink (>= 0.18.0-1)" (or whatever fink release we 
end up putting out to support this).

Max, David, any comments on this?


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