Bug 122487 – games-kids/gcompris dependencies for modular X

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ulrich Müller 2006-02-11 11:17:20 UTC]

games-kids/gcompris contains virtual/x11 in RDEPEND.

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2006-02-11 11:18:27 UTC]

Created attachment 79517 [details, diff]
Modular X dependencies for gcompris-7.2.ebuild

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2006-02-12 12:28:48 UTC]

Created attachment 79600 [details, diff]
Modular X dependencies for gcompris-6.5.3-r1.ebuild

[Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2006-02-13 20:08:04 UTC]

I've set the dependencies according the scripts I use.  What script(s) do you use Ulrich?

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2006-02-14 00:03:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I've set the dependencies according the scripts I use.  What script(s) do you
> use Ulrich?

Why, "included-headers.sh" and "linking-libs.sh" by spyderous.
They report (for 7.2) the following:
   x11-libs/libX11
   x11-libs/libXt
   x11-libs/libXrandr
   x11-libs/libXrender

I have also looked at several ebuilds and there appeared to be no definite policy if redundant dependencies should be removed or not. Please enlighten me.

If redundant ones are to be omitted, then you should remove _all_ of the above since everything is a dependency of gtk+-2.* .

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-02-14 12:51:29 UTC]

Well, here's my take on it.  I prefer a complete dependency-tree, *especially* for DEPEND, as someone could ahve ru "emerge depclean" and removed things that were in DEPEND only.  I prefer to not rely on the fact that some other packages depends on something, as that package's dependencies could change in the future and break this apckage without any kind of notice.

As for a policy, there isn't one, that I am aware of regarding this.