[Bug 222326] Review Request: gxine - GTK frontend for the xine multimedia library

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Summary: Review Request: gxine - GTK frontend for the xine multimedia library


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222326





------- Additional Comments From martin.sourada at seznam.cz  2007-01-18 05:11 EST -------
(In reply to comment #15)
> The problem is not firefox, the problem is removing "%{_libdir}/mozilla/plugins"
> the directory, when it's not needed anymore.
> 
> That is what I wrote a couple of days ago in another package's review:
> 
> - If several packages share a common directory, and if they depend on each other
> in a strict hierarchy, then letting the "root package" own this dir is sufficient.
> - If they don't depend on each other in a strict hierarchy, all of the packages
> must own this directory.
> 
> The former doesn't apply to gxine-mozplug => Only the latter is applicable.
> 
> "Requires: firefox" would be a hack to force the former approach, though this,
> strictly speaking is incorrect and too strict (It's the same "hack" why packages
> providing *.pc must "Require: pkgconfig" and packages providing aclocal/*.m4
> must "Require: automake". Both these "Require"-ments are hacks/band-aids and
> actually wrong, but provided rpm persists to be unfixed/unmaintained, these are
> "easy hacks").
> 

So what do you suggest then? If the "Requires: firefox" is incorrect hack and
"Requires: %{_libdir}/mozilla/plugins" won't work due to some bug in rpm? Or did
I misunderstand your post?

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