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. -- Brian J. Murrell
