[gobolinux-devel] Undeclared Firefox-related dependencies

[MJ Ray]

"Jonas Karlsson" <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> On 19/06/2008, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> > Cairo depends on Pixman but it isn't declared;
>  Pixman is part of Xorg-Lib 7.3 (Xorg-Lib 7.3 is updated compared to
> the deprecated Xorg 7.3) and "Xorg-Lib >= 7.3" is declared. The
> problem is that the mapping Xorg<->Xorg-Lib is versionless, so any
> version of Xorg satisfies the above dependency.

Would it hurt to declare Pixman?  Installing Firefox 3 on a 014.01
system should work IMO and this seemed to stop it.

> >  Firefox depends on dbus-glib but it isn't declared.
> >
> Not necessary afaik. Only if BDus is used.

Well, I had DBus installed but not running and the Firefox build
failed because it couldn't find DBus-GLib, so I don't think this is a
use-time dependency.

Hope that explains,
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