�Stefan van der Eijk� sagte am 2002-02-20 um 10:07:39 +0800 :
> Unless there is a REAL need to specify the required version of these 
> packages. I'm wondering what the effect of this is going to be. I'd 

Define "REAL need", please.  For me, it's enough that the author writes
on the homepage that a specific version is needed.

> be built with another version, etc). Otherwise things are going to get 
> overly complicated and harder to maintain when time passes. On the other 

In how far?  Let's suppose gnome2 is out, if the new gnome-libs package
is also named gnome-libs and not gnome2-libs, we might have a problem,
yes.  But then again, not chaning the package/provides name of a major
upgrade is wrong, IMO.

> hand, if you put a version requirement on the libglade-devel and 
> gdk-pixbuf-devel won't that then garantee that you have the correct 
> version of gtk+-devel and gnome-libs-devel installed (because they get 
> pulled in)? We could possibly also add version requirements on the other 

I don't know, that's why I think it's right to add version requirements
as much as possible.

> But wouldn't that be a bit too much?

I don't think it would be too much.  Actually, I think it would be
right.  I way too often ended up having to install additional -devel
packages to be able to build a package.

Alexander Skwar
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