[Slackbuilds-users] Needing requirements built with options

[Ryan P.C. McQuen]

If there are other situations meriting gst1-plugins-bad built against libmodplug, wouldn't it be worth it to make it a hard dependency? Does anyone really mind one extra package if it means better compatibility down the road?


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> On Jul 14, 2014, at 2:39 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/14/2014 02:08 PM, Doogster wrote:
>> I'm about to submit a new version of gnome-inform7, and I've run into a
>> problem. It requires gst1-plugins-bad, and it needs gst1-plugins-bad to
>> have been built with libmodplug support. The problem is that
>> gst1-plugins-bad lists libmodplug as an optional dependency, not as a
>> hard one. How should I handle that,
>> 
>> The best solution I can think of is to specify gst1-plugins-bad in the
>> info file as a hard requirement, then mention in the README that
>> gst1-plugins-bad needs to have been built against libmodplug. Is there a
>> better way?
> 
> IMO,  think that is the best way.  Specify the dep in .info, then give
> "gotchas" in the README.  This might trip up the sbopkg users, but short
> of including a "special" gst1-plugings-bad, it'll be hard to cover every
> use case.  After all, we should all be reading the README, right?
> 
> -Ed
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