[52497] trunk/dports/gnome/liboobs/Portfile

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Jun 17 12:27:51 PDT 2009


On 2009-6-18 05:12, nox wrote:
> Le 17 juin 09 à 21:09, Joshua Root a écrit :
> 
>> On 2009-6-18 05:07, nox wrote:
>>> So liboobs does not depend anymore on glib2 and gettext?
>>> Or did you just remove them because dbus-glib depends on them? If this
>>> is the answer, you should not do that.
>>
>> Why not? If every gnome component declared a dependency on everything it
>> links against, the list would be huge.
>>
>> - Josh
> 
> I agree with you in the case where it just links against it because one
> of its dependencies need it.
> But if the port checks explicitely for a library in its configure script
> or uses one of its functions
> in the sources, then it should be listed as a dependency.

OK, that sounds like a reasonable rule to follow.

- Josh


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