Re: videolan-client and wxGTK/wxGTK-common dependency problem

On 05/03/06, Matthew Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is kind of a mess. Which version of Fedora Core are you currently
> using?

FC4.

> I'm going to update wxGTK in FC4 once version 2.6.3 comes out, and at
> that point, there won't be a wxGTK-common package in Extras either. (Just
> wxGTK, wxGTK-gl, and wxGTK-devel.) But also, the audacity package will need
> to be updated to 1.30b. (There will be a compat-wxGTK package too which will
> proved the old version of the library required by audacity 1.2.x for
> transition.)
>

Yes - on further delving into the issue, it seems that the FE audacity
rpm requires version 2.4 of wxGTK and wxGTK-common which are shipped
by FE (i.e. you :) ), whereas freshrpms ships version 2.6, which is
required by videolan-client. I haven't yet worked out why the FE
audacity doesn't allow wxGTK >= 2.4, perhaps that would solve the
issue.

> But further, the package shouldn't really need to explicitly require
> wx-anything, should it? It should pick up the library dep automatically.

Yes - it's doing that - it seems that the autogenerated deps for the
FE audacity are requiring wxGTK = 2.4 and wxGTK-common = 2.4, and not
wxGTK(-common)>=2.4.

Oh how I wish freshrpms/rpmforge still shipped audacity, built against
wxGTK 2.6 :)

Jonathan.