On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:34:49PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:45:57PM +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote: > > The only reason that we need pcb-common to Depend on > > pcb-gtk | pcb-lesstif > > > > is because there's an upstream desktop entry > > /usr/share/applications/pcb.desktop installed in pcb-common, this > > desktop entry executes the binary 'pcb' which will only exist if either > > pcb-gtk or pcb-lesstif is installed. > > > > So, is it ok to remove this "pcb-gtk | pcb-lesstif" dependancy in this > > case ? That would mean that a user could install pcb-common, yet > > without installing any of pcb-gtk nor pcb-lesstif, so he will have a > > desktop entry without having the binary that should be executed by > > this desktop entry. > > For what it's worth, it's not universally agreed that these circular > dependencies are evil and must be fixed. In this case all the relevant > binary packages come from the same source, so there is no reason for > version skew. ---end quoted text---
Well, I think I'll go with your point, since using TryExec was a bad idea, as it makes the desktop file not appear in the menu ! -- أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) Digital design engineer GPG KeyID: 0xEDDDA1B7 (@ subkeys.pgp.net) GPG Fingerprint: 8206 A196 2084 7E6D 0DF8 B176 BC19 6A94 EDDD A1B7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
