[OE-core] [poky] -dev RPM packages Require:ing all of their bitbake build dependences

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> Another approach would be to stop injecting -dev Requires by default.  I
>> imagine this was done to handle the case of library A whose headers
>> require library B.  However, a saner way to handle this I think is
>> simply to push people to use pkg-config; IIRC a script exists to extract
>> pkg-config dependencies from the .pc files and use that for the RPM
>> auto-dependency phase.  That would ensure that e.g. gtk+-dev Requires:
>> glib-dev.  This doesn't help non-pkg-config libraries, but those people
>> should be shamed anyways =)
>
> I think these dependencies are wrong and need revisiting. Currently,
> -dev and -dbg packages share the same code and its tilted more in favour
> of -dbg than it is for -dev.
>
> I think the -dev packages make sense if you want to build X but not
> build something that just depends on X. We should therefore move the
> dependencies to a new package (need a good name) and rethink the -dev
> package dependencies.


I'm inclined to say let the user install the deps needed to build X
themselves, or build it with bitbake, and let -dev work the way it
does in other distros, the bits needed to build against X.
-- 
Christopher Larson