Breaking deps deliberately

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed May 13 14:57:07 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> If a package has a build-time dependency on libdvdcss, it wouldn't be
> even allowed in Fedora due to the existing licensing guidelines. If it
> is a optional run-time dependency, we don't need to bother about them.
> This is a completely separate case.

But if you write Requires: libdvdcss to enforce the runtime dependency, then
the package would build, but it still wouldn't be acceptable. It would be a
case of a broken dependency.

        Kevin Kofler




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