[arch-dev-public] libx11/xorgproto dependency

[Levente Polyak]

On December 21, 2019 9:41:46 AM GMT+01:00, Andreas Radke via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org> wrote:
>With this move I've "fixed" libx11 no more depending at runtime on
>xorgproto package. I think no headers belong to an end user system and
>the libx11 library itself doesn't depend on it. But we also ship
>libx11-devel part inside the package and this indead depends on
>xorgproto headers. The libx11 .pc file clearly wants to have the
>headers
>installed. In the past it was enough to include libx11 to also pull in
>the proto headers at build time. This is now broken. Some devs call
>libx11 broken though only its -devel part is.
>
>After some discussion on IRC these solution are possible:
>
>a) revert to make libx11 depend again on xorgproto headers. This is the
>pragmatic way and would not need any further work. It just installs
>header files to the user system that aren't needed in any way there. So
>we did in the past and I don't really like it as it's not correct to
>me.
>
>b) stay with changed libx11 and add xorgproto to packages that check
>for any of its headers. This needs to be done to an amount of ~300
>packages when hitting build errors over the next time.
>
>c) go an unusual way here and split libx11 into libx11, libx11-devel
>depending on xorgproto and maybe even libx11-xcb. This is the way
>distros go that support splitting libraries. It's probably the
>technical correct solution but will also require packages to
>makedepend on libx11-devel and save us no work.
>
>Other distributions have chosen what they prefer. That a decision that
>needs to be done downstream.
>
>I'd like to have either solution b) or c) in Arch to have a clear
>and more "transient" build time dependency. I guess it may help us
>also in the future when moving some day away from Xorg to its
>successor.
>But if majority wants solution a) back I'm fine reverting this change.
>
>Please vote.
>
>-Andy



I'm voting for b) or c).
If there aren't really any further deps, personally to me it doesn't really matter
too much to combine them, however for compile additions I prefer independence.
btw we also have xorg-server-devel

Cheers
Levente