eel2 is going away

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Tue Dec 16 15:20:26 UTC 2008


On Tuesday, 16 December 2008 at 15:32, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:37 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 16 December 2008 at 08:15, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > eel2 has been merged back into nautilus, and will no longer be available
> > > as a separate library. I've added an Obsoletes to the nautilus package.
> > > 
> > > This only affects a handful of packages, and for most of them a simple
> > > rebuild should suffice:
> > > 
> > > $repoquery -q --whatrequires libeel-2.so.2
> > > nautilus-python-0:0.5.1-1.fc10.i386
> > > control-center-1:2.24.0.1-9.fc10.i386
> > > nautilus-cd-burner-0:2.24.0-1.fc10.i386
> > > nautilus-share-0:0.7.2-13.fc10.i386
> > > gnome-translate-0:0.99-12.fc9.i386
> > > nautilus-search-tool-0:0.2.2-4.fc10.i386
> > 
> > IIUC, it's just the library moving from eel2 package to nautilus, right?
> > So why would the packages need a rebuild? The specfiles may need updating
> > to use nautilus-devel instead of eel2-devel, but I'd say a rebuild just
> > for that reason is unnecessary.
> 
> No, there's no installed library anymore. libeel is merged into
> libnautilus-private, which is just a convenience library, not something
> thats available for linking against.

Ah, that explains things. So my comments are irrelevant, then. Thanks
for explaining.

Regards,
R.

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