[oe] [PATCH 1/7] libgnomekbd: cleanup DEPENDS inherit gsettings / remove unused config

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Sun Dec 1 17:35:01 UTC 2019


On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 05:51:17PM +0100, Andreas Müller wrote:
> * DEPENDS: ... gtk+3 pulls glib-2.0
>...
> -DEPENDS = "gconf glib-2.0 libxklavier gtk+3 intltool-native"
> +DEPENDS = "gtk+3 libxklavier"
>...

It is better to have explicit dependencies on everything used directly 
by the recipe.

gtk+3 -> glib-2.0 is not a dependency that is likely to go away in the
future, but in general relying on indirect dependencies tends to break
frequently.

cu
Adrian


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