an additional requirement on kdelibs

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Mar 13 17:04:57 GMT 2007


Dirk Mueller wrote:
>if you want to compile kdelibs on X11 you better have xorg-x11-devel
> installed (which will pull in libexpat-devel unless your distribution
> is broken).

It doesn't on Mandriva and kdelibs builds just fine.

Unless the X11 public headers are including libexpat headers, there's no 
reason for the dependency (as long as we're talking about shared 
libraries; it breaks down for static ones).

X.org 7.2
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