[RULE] gd, xpm, and X libraries: need a second opinion

[M. Fioretti]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 21:07:04 PM +0200, Martin Stricker
 shugal at gmx.de  wrote:
> Paul Nijjar wrote:
> 
> > Do SRPMs come with specfiles? If so, then all you would need to
> > track is the specfile. Every time RedHat (or whomever) came up
> > with a new version of the package (which corrected errata or
> > whatever) then you could build the package using the new specfile.
> 
> Yes they do - otherwise rpm -b wouldn't make much sense...
> I think that is the most easy way of removing unneeded dependencies.

Absolutely yes. It's also the way I plan to go for the mini-kde (see
webpage): take the rpms prepared by the kde-redhat project, *after*
they have tested them, and massage the spec file.

> Red Hat won't do it - I complained back at RHL7.0 (I think) about
> them having dropped the emacs-nox package. Furthermore all their
> redhat-config-* tools require X

Have you tried to rebuild _those_ without the X-dependency?

> > > ...it occurs to me at this point that the entire premise of
> > > posting here assumes that folks here agree it's worth worrying
> > > about eliminating a dependance on X libraries.  dunno if that's
> > > the case.
> > 
> > I can't speak for anybody else, but reducing dependencies on
> > components I don't need is a huge consideration for me. Many
> > simple graphical packages I want depend on GNOME or KDE when they
> > don't really need to.
> 
> Agreed absolutely!

Same here, this is the whole point of RULE: don't use obsolete
software, just strip the fluff from the modern one.

Waiting for the results of your builds...

Ciao,
	Marco Fioretti
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