[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: rekonq (request for comments)

Donald Stewart watersnowrock at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 00:01:36 CET 2013


On 2 February 2013 22:45, David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at ...> writes:
>> Works well for me, although I'm not sure if it still needs these BR:
>>
>> BuildRequires: pkgconfig(shared-desktop-ontologies)
>> BuildRequires: pkgconfig(QtWebKit)
>>
>> as they weren't needed after installing ldelibs4-devel, whoever this
>> wasn't in a clean build environment so it could be an error.
>
> If you take them out of the spec as BuildRequires, they are still installed,
> and they are still used specifically in the build.  As they are used by rekonq,
> it is appropriate to have them as BuildRequires.  Right now, it appears that
> they are also required by one of the other BuildRequires, so listing them
> explicitly is redundant *at this time* but that could change in the future, as
> they could be dropped as Requires by those other things in the future.  As
> rekonq is looking for and using those two things specifically, it's best to
> leave them in the spec as BuildRequires.
>

Them being required by another require was what I was referring too,
they seem to have been pulled by the kdelibs4-devel, however, as you
both said, things change and its not that bad a thing to have them
listed like this.


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