On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 20:18 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > My personnal opinion is that libraries should not depend on > non-libraries, so yes. However I am not familiar enough with fontconfig > to guess why this dependency was added.
I adopted this package from Josselin Mouette with this dependency in
place. I'm afraid it looks necessary as
the configuration files and support application live in 'fontconfig'
while the library itself lives in 'libfontconfig1'. Both must be
installed for the system to work correctly.
Because of the pervasive (and reasonable) use of ${shlibs:Depends} in
other packages, many application packages that need fontconfig will only
end up with a dependency on libfontconfig1.
Conversely, font packages which don't need the library and yet still
want to install custom fontconfig aliases or other configuration changes
will reasonably depend on fontconfig.
So, we have two possible reasons for installing fontconfig which lead to
two different but reasonable Depends: entries.
Any thoughts on how to make this work?
-keith
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