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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:57:51PM +0200, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Le jeudi 03 août 2006 à 18:43 +0200, Andraž "ruskie" Levstik a écrit :
> > Flavien Bridault wrote :
> > 
> > > > +depends  gst-python             &&
> > > > +depends  gstreamer              &&
> > > > +depends  gst-plugins-base
> > > 
> > > Are both gstreamer AND gst-plugins-base necessary ? Is gst-plugins-base
> > > not sufficient ?
> > > 
> > 
> > We use explicit depends for everything but basesystem stuff this avoids
> > any problems with depends later on.
> > 
> 
> That is still not very clear for me. I have some difficulties to
> understand how to choose the right depends. I that case, why don't we
> put so gtk+2 instead of only pygtk2 ? And gnome-python2 instead of only
> gnome-python-extras ? That seems to me the same kind of relationship
> than between gstreamer and gst-plugins-base. What am I missing ? :/

The basic idea is that a spell should depend on everything it uses
explicitly. E.g. with gstreamer/gst-plugins-*, it uses the plugins
_through_ gstreamer. The plugins might well move to another spell some
time, so it should also depend on gstreamer, to make sure that
dependency relation doesn't get lost.

A more interesting example would be wxwidgets (wxgtk) and gtk+2. Some
programs use pure wxwidgets and don't care about what's used as backend,
others also use gtk+2 directly in addition to wxwidgets. The former
should depend on wxgtk, the latter on wxgtk and gtk+2.

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