[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#478710: Bug#478710: Need advice

[أحمد]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:34:49PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 04:45:57PM +0200, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> >   The only reason that we need pcb-common to Depend on
> >   pcb-gtk | pcb-lesstif
> >   
> >   is because there's an upstream desktop entry 
> >   /usr/share/applications/pcb.desktop installed in pcb-common, this 
> >   desktop entry executes the binary 'pcb' which will only exist if either 
> >   pcb-gtk or pcb-lesstif is installed.
> > 
> >   So, is it ok to remove this "pcb-gtk | pcb-lesstif" dependancy in this 
> >   case ? That would mean that a user could install pcb-common, yet 
> >   without installing any of pcb-gtk nor pcb-lesstif, so he will have a 
> >   desktop entry without having the binary that should be executed by 
> >   this desktop entry.
> 
> For what it's worth, it's not universally agreed that these circular
> dependencies are evil and must be fixed. In this case all the relevant
> binary packages come from the same source, so there is no reason for
> version skew.
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  Well, I think I'll go with your point, since using TryExec was a bad 
  idea, as it makes the desktop file not appear in the menu !

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