On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:37:14AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:17 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I am unsure what you are discussing here. > > > > The only dependency which is problematic is libfontconfig1 Depends: on > > fontconfig. Other packages depending on fontconfig are OK. Packages > > depending on libfontconfig1 are OK providing they also Depends on > > fontconfig (which can be achieved through shlibs file). > > libfontconfig1 has to depend on fontconfig as that package (currently) > contains all of the configuration information necessary for that > library; I guess I'm unsure how to effect a change from this situation > to one where all users of libfontconfig1 automatically gain a dependency > on fontconfig without repackaging everything. There are 221 packages on > my machine that depend on libfontconfig1...
Hmm, maybe I see another solution: move the configuration information to a package libfontconfig-common that would not depend on libfontconfig1, and have libfontconfig1 depend on libfontconfig-common but not on fontconfig. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
