Request for review: Enlightenment DR17 + EFL

[Didier Casse]

On 5/30/05, John Ellson <ellson at research.att.com> wrote:
> Didier Casse wrote:
> 
> >On 5/30/05, John Ellson <ellson at research.att.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Didier Casse wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>    I would like to have a review on the  Enlightenment DR17 package
> >>>+ the accompanying Enlightenment Foundation Library packages (EFL).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Dependency problem:
> >>
> >>    $ rpmbuild -ba emotion.spec
> >>    error: Failed build dependencies:
> >>            xine-lib-devel is needed by
> >>emotion-0.0.1.003-1.20050530.e17.fc3.x86_64
> >>
> >>xine-lib-devel is not provided by Fedora-Core or Fedora-Extras.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >arrgggh :-(
> >
> >This is not a problem if you want to install enlightenment. It doesn't
> >really need emotion. But goodies like
> >
> >eclair --- EFL powered media player
> >engage --- Cool docker that resembles OSX in some ways
> >e_utils --- Utilities: e17setroot/emblem/entangle/e_util_app_edit
> >(Well these ones can be a necessity!)
> >
> >and things like
> >
> >ewl --- Widget library
> >examine--- config interface
> >
> >cannot be installed. Is there a possibility that somebody maintains
> >xine in FC extras?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> There are additional depencies as well, but xine itself isn't required.
> I was able to continue testing E by installing the following from DAG's
> repository:
> 
>     aalib-1.4.0-5.dag.src.rpm
>     libfame-0.9.1-6.rf.src.rpm
>     xine-lib-1.0.1-2.rf.src.rpm
> 
Yes the whole xine is not required. BuildRequires /usr/bin/xine-config
(to bemore precise!) which is provided by xine-lib-devel package.

The above libs of course are required by xine-lib and indirectly
required by emotion. :-)

-- 
Cheers,
Didier.

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Yum/apt repository for DR17/EFL: http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe

Didier F.B Casse
PhD candidate, Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS)
National University of Singapore.