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FS#25410 - [libpulse ]unneeded dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Fabian Homborg (alfa) - Friday, 05 August 2011, 16:16 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Friday, 19 August 2011, 09:57 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
libpulse should not depend on libcap.
It depends on dbus-core, which depends on coreutils, which depends on libcap.

Steps to reproduce:
Check "pacman -Si libpulse dbus-core coreutils libcap"
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Friday, 19 August 2011, 09:57 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  see last comment
Comment by Fabian Homborg (alfa) - Friday, 05 August 2011, 16:17 GMT
Don't know if it was clear or not, but I meant to say the libcap-dependency in the libpulse PKGBUILD is unnecessary, because it already depends on it indirectly
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Saturday, 06 August 2011, 08:52 GMT
I'd rather keep the dependency, as pulseaudio does make use of libcap directly.

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