packaging of gui app: should it require X + wm ?

[David Timms]

Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> David Timms schrieb:
> 
>> Just trying some minimal installs of the dev tree, succesfully booting
>> to text mode (ie no X nor wm). I did a yum install gkrellm. This
>> installed lm-sensors, but didn't force or warn that an X implmentation
>> or window manager should be installed.
> 
> Did it pull in (or did you have installed before) xorg-x11-libs?
> This is (usually) enough to get remote X going, you do not necessarily
> need a WM or X on the machine itself.
> 
Thanks Ralf and Michael for the explanation. My minimal install did 
already have:
   libX11-1.0.3-4.fc6 installed. Is this the current name for what you 
are referring to ?

I found the following in the packaging guidelines-
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Requires :
===
Requires

RPM has very good capabilities of automatically finding dependencies for 
libraries and eg. Perl modules. In short, don't reinvent the wheel, but 
just let rpm do its job. There is usually no need to explicitly list eg. 
Requires: XFree86 when the dependency has already been picked up by rpm 
in the form of depending on libraries in the XFree86 package.
===
This tells me what not to do. I can't find what I should do (other than 
to include/install a .desktop file 
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#desktop ) with 
requires when I'm a packaging a gui app.

For eg gkrellm includes: libSM-devel and not much else that would 
indicate X: 
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/gkrellm/devel/gkrellm.spec?root=extras&view=markup

Perhaps it is part of the {invisible} list of packages that I shouldn't 
require ?  Also, I was unable to find the list of packages that are in 
the newer mock base build - any pointer to such a list ?

Thanks, DaveT.