[Bug 530021] Review Request: moovida - Media Center

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--- Comment #7 from Alex Lancaster <alexl at users.sourceforge.net>  2009-10-25 15:33:51 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> What's the use of splitting this into two packages? Only for building the
> plugins or can the moovida-base package actually be used without movida?
> Even without splitting the package I cannot see the dependency loop: The
> plugins BuildRequire the movida package, but at runtime movida requires (at
> least) some plugins. So where is the loop? Note the difference between
> BuildRequires and Requires here.

I think the problem is that if the plugins were to just BuildRequire: moovida
(without base), then when that BR (moovida) is installed, it would also attempt
to install the plugins which haven't yet been built.  That's the loop.

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