On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:49:13 -0400 (EDT), Mike Burger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > While looking through the updates mail, I saw something that sounded > intriguing, "hamster-applet." Did a yum info query on it, then thought > I'd install it to have a look. But it wanted to drag in a ridiculous > number of dependencies, most of them devel packages. > > > > Surely a precompiled non-devel RPM shouldn't be dragging in development > packages? That's got to be a major design screw up. Doesn't > > incorporating a package into a repo involve some sort of checking > procedure to reject packages trying to do that sort of nonsense? > (Non-devel packages depending on devel packages.) Yes, the initial review before a new package is accepted into the Fedora Collection. But later on, the packager can update the package without needing any review. Usually that's when packaging bugs return into the package. > <snip> > > Quite often, those -devel packages have library files included on which > the non-devel package depends. Uhm, exactly *that* would be a packaging bug. ;) > Packages that depend on the kernel-devel > packages spring to mind, but many others do, as well. Many others? Hopefully not. Here it's: --> Processing Dependency: evolution-data-server-devel >= 1.4.0 for package: gnome-python2-evolution Summary : Python bindings for interacting with evolution-data-server Description : This module contains a wrapper that allows the use of evolution-data-server via Python. # rpm -qpl gnome-python2-evolution-2.22.0-4.fc10.i386.rpm /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/__init__.py /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/__init__.pyc /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/__init__.pyo /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/ebook.so /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/evolution/ecal.so It contains an explicit dependency on evolution-data-server-devel >= 1.4.0 without a comment in the spec file. -- Fedora release 9.90 (Rawhide) - Linux 2.6.26-0.45.rc4.git2.fc10.i686 loadavg: 1.21 1.62 1.74 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
