Bug#901624: libecore-input1: circular dependency hell

Ross Vandegrift ross at kallisti.us
Wed Jun 20 06:23:35 BST 2018


On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 07:30:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> I looked at it and did not have any alternative bright ideas. There is
> just a single manual (non-shlibs) dependency involved and it is there
> for a good reason.

I tested changing the libevas1-engines-x Depends -> Recommends, and it seems to
work well.  Both X11 and Wayland support is installed by default.

> > Maybe we drop the engine depends from libevas1, and require that EFL
> > apps include libevas1-engines-x | libevas-engines in their depends?
> 
> Adding a manual step for each app does not seem to be a good trade-off.

Yea, agreed this should be avoided.

Ross



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