Useless OpenEXR split

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Sep 17 16:23:23 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt wrote:

> Why does the -libs package require these tools?
> The .spec doesn't answer that question.
> 
> In the other direction, there's a hardcoded strict dependency in
> addition to the automatic soname deps, creating a circle:
> 
> $ rpm -qR OpenEXR|grep EXR
> OpenEXR-libs = 1.4.0a-5.fc8
> 
> Conclusively, the split is useless.

It's cleaner wrt multilib, ie no OpenEXR.i386 in x86_64 repo.

(same goes for jasper).

-- Rex




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