On Mon, Feb 25, 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > Conventionally, library -dev packages do depend on other -dev packages that > they require for static linking; and certainly, tools like pkg-config and > libtool (and other home-grown foo-config scripts) tend to encourage this > behavior. Nowadays, with a proper .pc file I would argue that this could be > reduced to a Recommends.
Cannot be reduced: pkg-config needs to be able to go down Requires.private modules to compute Cflags and hence you have to Depend on Requires.private modules (as if they are missing, pkg-config calls simply fail). -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
