krb5-devel depends on e2fsprogs-devel ?

Lamont R. Peterson lamont at gurulabs.com
Fri Oct 7 18:30:49 UTC 2005


On Friday 07 October 2005 10:37am, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Lamont R. Peterson wrote:
> > Just did "yum install openssl-devel" and was surprised to find out that
> > it depends on e2fsprogs-devel.

Argh..I should have checked that one :) .

> Actually it's openssl-devel depends on krb5-devel which depends on
> e2fsprogs-devel.
>
> So, why does krb5-devel depend on e2fsprogs-devel?  Looking at krb5's
> changelog,
> rpm -q --changelog krb5
> I see the entry:
>
> * Wed Jun 18 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.3-0.beta.4
> - test update to 1.3 beta 4
> - ditch statglue build option
> - krb5-devel requires e2fsprogs-devel, which now provides libss and
> libcom_err

Ah...so now my question is, "should the libss and libcom_err headers (and/or 
others) be moved into a separate package from e2fsprogs-devel?"
-- 
Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
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