On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 15:11, Charles Howse wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 16 February 2004 07:41 am, Tarjei Knapstad wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 05:19, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > The next thing that didn't work was KMail. > > > I clicked the KMail icon, and it errored with: > > > kdeinit cannot start kmail. > > > I started kmail from a terminal and the actual error is: > > > cannot find libkdenetwork.so.2 > > > KNode depends on this library, as well. > > > > > > I did yum provides libkdenetwork.so.2, and that told me that > > > kdepim-develop provides libkdenetwork.so.2, so I did yum install > > > kdepim-develop, and installed kdepim-develop and it's dependencies. > > > Now KMail is working properly. > > > > <snip> > > > > Surely this has to be a packaging bug? Dynamic libraries that are linked > > to by applications shouldn't reside in a -devel package. I'd report this > > to the KDE package maintainers if you're absolutely sure that > > libkdenetwork.so.2 resides in kdepim-develop (sounds very strange to > > me...) > > [Charlies@moe charles]$ rpm -ql kdepim-devel > [snip] > /usr/lib/libkdenetwork.so.2 > [snip] > <snip> In that case I'd report this as a packaging bug. Dynamic libraries don't belong in -devel packages (unless they're special builds with debugging symbols included for instance). -- Tarjei
