[arch-dev-public] libx11/xorgproto dependency

Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steffens at gmail.com
Sat Dec 21 15:58:29 UTC 2019


On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 12:18 PM Allan McRae via arch-dev-public <
arch-dev-public at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 21/12/19 7:31 pm, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote:
> > Downstream consumers of libx11 shouldn't have to know and account for
> > libx11's headers/pkg-config files referencing xorgproto. A
> > libx11-devel package would depend on xorgproto. Since there's no
> > separate -devel package, the dependency stays with the regular libx11
> > package.
>
> This matches my opinion on the matter.
>

Ditto. (a) and (c) are the technically correct solutions, and I prefer (a).

Unless we want to start a distro-wide effort of splitting out -devel
packages, that is.


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