On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:22:53 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > I'm right now compiling a package, and since I didn't yet have the > necessary devel packages installed, I needed to add quite a lot of > BuildRequires and Requires to the SPEC. In particular I added: > > BuildRequires: libxml-devel, libglade-devel, libxpm4-devel, > gettext-devel, bison, byacc Requires: xml , > libglade , libxpm4 BuildRequires: libscrollkeeper-devel, > libbzip2-devel > > Well, it's right, the package (multi-gnome-terminal) requires it. But > these are only indirect requires. For instance, every package that uses > gettext should have a gettext-devel BuildRequires. Also the > libbzip2-devel require shouldn't be in my SPEC, I think. Same with > bison, byacc, libscrollkeeper-devel and libxpm4-devel > > I'd think the following packages should be requir like this: > > libxml-devel, libscrollkeeper-devel: libgnome32-devel gettext-devel, > bison, byacc, libbzip2-devel: rpm-build libxpm4-devel: XFree86-devel
No, you are wrong.. We are trying to switch to "implicit" BuildRequires.. -- Fr�d�ric Crozat MandrakeSoft
