"Peter O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > > On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:41 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > > > > SHORT TERM SOLUTION: > > Although we should not allow a -dev splitoff to Depend on another -dev > > splitoff, we can use the "Recommends" field to specify the other -dev > > splitoffs which are relevant. This will be useful for package > > maintainers, who will simply need to consult the "Recommends" field > > to find out which things they need to add to the "BuildDepends" line > > in their own packages. > > I don't see the need for this to be in a Recommends field, would it not > be better in a Desc* type field, or simply as a #comment in the .info > file?
Good idea. It's better, in fact, because it means I can do this without upping the revision number on packages. This is what I will start to implement. > > > LONG TERM SOLUTION: > > It seems to me that in the long term, for packages using pkgconfig we > > can allow both the headers and the root dylib symlink to go into the > > -shlibs package, i.e., we can merge the -dev and -shlibs packages in > > such a case. This is because the pkgconfig system is explicitly > > designed to allow multiple versions to be installed simultaneously. > > pkg-config itself is not designed to do anything other than list the > libs, cflags etc. Gnome-2 required that the libraries used be renamed > from libfoo.x.y > dylib to libfoo-2.0.x.y.dylib, so that they could coexist with the > gnome-1.4 libraries. There are other, non-gnome libraries which use > pkg-config and do not have version specific library names. So, while > this would work for the gnome packages (assuming the gnome people keep > renaming their libraries to match the version), it wouldn't work for > anything else. > > Consider me opposed to the long term solution (sorry I don't have > another option to propose though). I don't have a lot of experience with pkgconfig, so I'm happy to learn more about it. Too bad my idea won't work; hopefully someone else will come up with a better one. Until then, the short-term solution will have to do. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
