Amarok still depending in hald?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Feb 1 21:15:08 UTC 2011


Rex Dieter wrote:
> There is no hal dep in f15+ (at least, there *should* not be).

Well, is the problem really fixed in F15? The report was on F14, but the 
libmtp change affects everything >= F14 including Rawhide. Did anybody 
actually test Amarok on Rawhide without libmtp-hal and hal?

> amarok in f14 has a silly dependency on libmtp-hal (the mere existence
> of that subpkg and requirement of such a dep is the silly part).

The subpackage exists mainly to carry the Requires: hal, not because of the 
one file. Even if the file were in the main libmtp package, Amarok would 
still have to Requires: hal to work, at least in F14. With the libmtp-hal 
subpackage, no direct Requires: hal is needed because the subpackage takes 
care of dragging it in.

        Kevin Kofler



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