Re: [xine-user] Trouble installing RPMs on RedHat 8

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi Manfred,

> RPM has entries for depending libs or packages. You can manually add
> depending packages and every file is scanned for needed libs so (here
> with SuSE 8.1) the xineplug_flac.so automaticly generates dependency
> to libFLAC.so.3 (and some libs out of the glibc package). I can't set
> it optional so when providing one big libxine-RPM needs a installed
> flac-rpm (it's part of the SuSE 8.1 distro, but not in SuSE < 8.0).

You can disable the automatic dependecy detection RPM does by IIRC 
putting "Autoreqprov: no" in the header of the spec file.

Then you can manually add all the dependencies that are really needed  
leaving out stuff like libFLAC.so.3.

Michael

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