On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Often packages depending on X11 libraries will also have to specify > the X11 libraries' proto packages in DEPEND. This is because the X11 > library itself #includes files provided by the proto package. It's not > really that the X11 library depends on this at run-time, so the > protocol packages aren't specified in the RDEPEND of the libraries. > > This is documented in a number of bug reports (see 379545), and it > seems that the decision is between > - add proto package to dependency list of packages using X11 libs > - add proto package to rdepend list of the relevant library itself > > The first is more correct, I think, but it's also much more annoying. > Mesa winds up having x11-proto/inputproto in DEPEND for some long > forgotten reason, for instance.
Why is it annoying? -A > > The second option is much simpler and less error prone, but removes > the ability to depclean the proto packages. > > It seems that some sort of DEPEND variable that means "I only need > this when other packages are building against me" would be useful. > Thoughts? > > Matt > >
