[OE-core] dbus-native --with-x

[Koen Kooi]

Op 1 jun 2011, om 18:03 heeft Phil Blundell het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 17:01 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> Is there any compelling reason why dbus-native needs to be built
>> --with-x?  This seems to be causing quite a large stack of native X11
>> packages to get built with, as far as I can tell, no useful result.
> 
> Oh, on the subject of out-of-control dependency chains, my other pet
> bugbear at the moment is rpm-native:
> 
> "rpm-native" -> "bzip2-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "db-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "perl-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "openssl-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "expat-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "autoconf-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "automake-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "libtool-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "gnu-config-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "gettext-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "python-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "acl-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "elfutils-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "libpcre-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "zlib-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "popt-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "attr-native"
> 
> As far as I can tell, the native rpm is never being used in any way
> which requires it to have openssl, and I suspect the same is probably
> true for some of the other libs above.  Does anybody happen to know what
> features rpm-native actually requires for correct operation?

Furthermore, rpm-native seems to get built even if you don't select rpm as package format!

regards,

Koen