Shawn Walker wrote:
I asked if the *first* package (libxcb) *required* the second package (xcb-util). It was already clear the second required the first. However, your reply below seems to indicate the first package does not require the second.
If the first package required the second, and the second package required the first, XCB would have an internal circular dependency, and that would be a Bad Thing(TM), because circular dependencies in software architecture -- as a general rule -- are toxic, and it would have never passed muster either at XCB, or here.
So to be clear then, end-users would never need the libraries in the proposed pkg:/x11/library/xcb-util package to run an application, only developers?
It is up to the application developer to create a direct binding dependency on a shared library from the xcb-util package. End-users might need (and probably *will* need) the shared libraries from both packages.
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