Re: Edge case issues

On Fri, Mar 7, 2025, at 2:40 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 04:15:33PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
>
>
> Spoiler alert--alacritty is solved.  User error.
>
>
>> I installed F42 from the nightly builds last night. I almost always choose
>> a minimal install and build from there.
>> 
>> I ran into two issues, both of which I guess are edge cases, since I
>> suspect most people use one of the included desktops. But I tend to install
>> openbox.
>> 
>> The first issue is that I found there is no longer a tint2 rpm. Tint2 is a
>> panel that goes well with openbox. I guess I've been upgrading various
>> installs which is why I didn't notice that there hasn't been a tint2 rpm in
>> a while. (The last I found was from F39, on rpmfind). It installed on the
>> F42 with no problems.
>> 
>> The second issue is the alacritty terminal. I installed from rpm which
>> seemed fine, but when I tried to open it, I got a message of
>> 
>> 
>> thread 'main' panicked at /usr/share/cargo/registry/xkbcommon-dl-0.4.2/src/x11.rs:59:28:
>> Library libxkbcommon-x11.so could not be loaded.
>> note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
>
> It turns out that I hadn't installed xkbcommon. I was *sure* that I had,
> but hadn't, once it was installed, alacritty was fine. Sorry to waste
> people's time.
>
>
That still sounds like a packaging bug - any dependency should be explicitly listed rather than implicitly depended on

I suspect xkbcommon is dlopen()ed which is why the RPM build process doesn't automatically flag it as a dependency

Cheers,

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