On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:05:49AM +0800, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> >On Thursday 18 October 2001 23:50, you wrote:
> >
> >>Yura Gusev wrote:
> >>
> >>>Subject: [CHRPM] mandrake_desk-8.1-21mdk
> >>>
> >
> >>>- BuildRequires: arts
> >>>
> >
> >>>Why does package that contains icons&backgrounds needs sound server?
> >>>
> >
> >>Good question, but it does, really.
> >>
> >
> >No, it doesn't. 
> >
> OK. Why don't you remove arts from your system and try to rebuild the 
> package (use --nodeps). You'll see where it stops. This packages 
> requires /usr/bin/mcopidl, which happens to be in the arts package.

Are you sure you two are arguing about the same thing?  I get the
impression that one person is griping about run-time
requirements/dependencies and the other is arguing about build-time
dependencies.  These are two very different points and shouldn't be
argued agsinst each other.

b.


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Brian J. Murrell

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