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Summary: Review Request: bitgtkmm (Gtkmm widgets for the bit library) Alias: bitgtkmm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192052
------- Additional Comments From rvinyard@cs.nmsu.edu 2006-07-29 21:08 EST -------
No. These are packages required to run. Say I didn't have atkmm on my machine (just as an example). Without the R atkmm being explictly states in the spec file, the package would know no better until it gets to a point that atkmm is needed and then it falls over dead.
Check out: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Requires
rpmbuild adds the requires, such as (continuing with the atkmm example): libatkmm-1.6.so.1()(64bit)
If you try and install bitgtkmm, rpm will complain that libatkmm-1.6.so.1 is required. If you're using yum, it will look up libatkmm-1.6.so.1 as a library in atkmm and add atkmm to the dependency installs.
The situation you ran into with Anjuta was a little different. The reason why you had to explicitly add it was that the Anjuta runtime didn't have a dependency on the gtkmm runtime libraries, so rpmbuild didn't add it to the rpm requires.