[ale] pkg-config --define-variable error

[Jeff Lightner]

Of course rpm does have a --nodeps flag if you know you have all the
dependencies met already.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JK
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 2:04 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] pkg-config --define-variable error

Jim Lynch wrote:

> I think you're mixing source and rpm files.  When you install an rpm,
it 
> looks for dependencies in other rpms that have been loaded.  Even
though 
> you installed taglib-sharp from source, the "rpm system" doesn't know 
> about it.  I don't have a Fedora box running right now, so I can't
tell 
> you how to fix it for sure.  If you have yum installed, try:
> 
> yum search banshee
> 
> To see if there is an rpm in your repository list.  If not, then you 
> might try:
> 
> yum localinstall banshee-1.0.0-1.fc9.x86_64.rpm
> 
> Hopefully it will find the taglib-sharp in the repositories.  Yum has 
> alleviated dependency hell to a great degree.

I agree with Jim.  There seem to be two different approaches to
dependency checking here (pkg-config's and RPM's), and they're
not playing nice together.

A rich ecosystem of Linux and other FOSS OS distros is nice, but
this particular aspect (ninety-bajillion different forms of
package management) can really suck sometimes. It does seem
to be getting better, though, with stuff like aptitude and yum.

-- JK

-- 
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  it usually does not smell nice there. -- A. Stepanov
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