Jürg Billeter wrote these words on 10/17/05 08:35 CST: > gtk+-2.x explicitly checks for at least glib-2.0, atk, pango and cairo. > And IMO these should all be added explicitly as required deps to the > BLFS page as "hidden dependencies" can be nasty, especially when > dependencies of dependencies change...
1. Policy is that we don't list dependencies that are already required by other dependencies. Can you say redundancy? 2. Going through and adding "hidden dependencies" would mean adding probably hundreds of needless dependencies to the book. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 10:02:01 up 22 days, 18:26, 3 users, load average: 0.98, 0.42, 0.20 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
