Do not require wayland-protocols as dependency in the .pc files
Basically, I was building some packages on Guix. I figured out that wayland-protocols
was listed among propagated-inputs
for gtk+
package (gtk-3-24
). propagated-inputs
holds a list of runtime dependencies, that should be available to any other package that depends on gtk+
. While discussing we clarified that wayland-protocols
is not runtime dependency. So I moved it to native-inputs
of gtk+
package, which means that, this dependency will be available only to gtk+
package and only at build time. Once moved, building of other applications that depening on gtk+
started to fail.
Investigation showed that, all .pc
(pkg-config
) files prepared by gtk+
package, was including:
Requires.private: ... wayland-protocols ...
Since it becomes requirement, other applications was failing with missing dependency wayland-protocols
of dependency gtk+
, for instance:
-- Checking for module 'gtk+-3.0'
-- Package 'wayland-protocols', required by 'gdk-3.0', not found
While actually wayland-protocols
is not even a build time dependency of application that depends on gtk+
.
Advertisement of such requirement, is a bit misleading, because one does not need it at runtime, especially applications based on gtk
.