On 02/23/11 16:08, Niels Mayer wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Auke Kok<[email protected]> wrote:
"--nodeps" was needed to work around a failed dependency -- even
though the dependency is already provided by MeeGo which contains the
needed libs.
error: Failed dependencies:
qt4-x11>= 4.2 is needed by skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586
Please file a bugzilla on this issue. Thanks. It should be trivial to
resolve this issue and we can include it to default QA testing.
I don't think it's a "bug" that a Fedora 10 RPM
(skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586) doesn't install without --nodeps on a
different distro. I posted my note not to mention a "bug" but rather
because people might want to install skype on ther MeeGo netbooks, and
it only takes three commands to do it -- as opposed to the usual
whining you hear from people who complain that there's no apps
available for MeeGo, when it's just Linux....
I actually disagree on that, really, this is a usability bug that we can
(and have the time to) look at. Perhaps it's not the highest importance,
but getting skype working *is* on our priority list, even if it's just a
good test vehicle for testing things like sound, video, etc. It's just
one of those applications we should really have working well.
It would make more sense to turn this into an enhancement request for
a post-install script (perhaps part of 'firstboot') which would give
the user the option of downloading and installing such must-have apps
once a network connection is established, e..g. Skype,
Google-chrome-beta with its built-in flash plugin, Java JRE or JDK
with java browser plugin, google-talk plugin, non-free codecs to allow
playback of MP3, AVI, FLV, and other codecs that are just expected to
work "out of box."
You're thinking too far ahead. Let's focus on making third party
applications install nicely first. In Skype's case, it's almost a
trivial fix (one-liner spec change?).
There is an enhancement request in here -- that MeeGo strives to
maintain compatible library versions with a current Fedora release,
then there would be no issues, ever, with installing Fedora RPMs on
MeeGo. MeeGo 1.2 is a lot better in this regard than 1.0 (
http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-community/2010-September/001906.html
), but it's not there yet:
I'd rather have meego-compatible builds of Skype coming from Skype
themselves, which should be easier...
For example installing Fedora's openoffice requires some link hacking
and even then it results in an unresolvable symbol (one of the things
i'm still looking into w/r/t "meegolem"):
Some things will be harder to fix - but let's attack them one bug at a time?
Again, please file a bugzilla on the skype issue. What would be wrong
with getting that fixed?
Auke
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