[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: rekonq (request for comments)

Sun Feb 3 00:01:36 CET 2013

On 2 February 2013 22:45, David Walser <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> wrote:
+> Donald Stewart <watersnowrock at ...> writes:
+>> Works well for me, although I'm not sure if it still needs these BR:
+>>
+>> BuildRequires: pkgconfig(shared-desktop-ontologies)
+>> BuildRequires: pkgconfig(QtWebKit)
+>>
+>> as they weren't needed after installing ldelibs4-devel, whoever this
+>> wasn't in a clean build environment so it could be an error.
+>
+> If you take them out of the spec as BuildRequires, they are still installed,
+> and they are still used specifically in the build.  As they are used by rekonq,
+> it is appropriate to have them as BuildRequires.  Right now, it appears that
+> they are also required by one of the other BuildRequires, so listing them
+> explicitly is redundant *at this time* but that could change in the future, as
+> they could be dropped as Requires by those other things in the future.  As
+> rekonq is looking for and using those two things specifically, it's best to
+> leave them in the spec as BuildRequires.
+>
+
+Them being required by another require was what I was referring too,
+they seem to have been pulled by the kdelibs4-devel, however, as you
+both said, things change and its not that bad a thing to have them
+listed like this.
+