Rebuild of gtk+ dependent packages required

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Sat Aug 20 18:09:58 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 15:14 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:33:04 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> > > Is it intentional, that redhat-artwork-0.126-1 still references
> > > libcairo.so.1?
> > 
> > doubtful... since redhat-artwork according to rpm doesn't have a
> > requirement on libcairo this probably fell through the cracks.
> > 
> > Is the autorequires probing that rpm does at buildtime turned off for
> > redhat-artwork?
> 
> Want to know what my nose says? It tells me that this smells like
> it's disabled, because else the theme DSOs would pull in a lot of
> dependencies. Wasn't redhat-artwork a package which wanted Qt and
> other libraries even when user used only GNOME?

Good nose. It's to avoid Qt and GTK+-1.2 dependencies.

						Owen

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