Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 433138
WebKit-gtk-devel has a requirement on qt4-devel
Last modified: 2008-03-02 05:24:24 EST
I just wanted to try out the WebKit-gtk package which has recently landed in rawhide for one of my own projects. While installing the WebKit-gtk-devel package yum mentioned that also qt4-devel was required. This looks kinda silly to me because I only want the GTK bits of WebKit. $ sudo yum install WebKit-gtk-devel Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package WebKit-gtk-devel.i386 0:1.0.0-0.4.svn29336.fc9 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: libWebKitGtk.so.1 for package: WebKit-gtk-devel --> Processing Dependency: qt4-devel for package: WebKit-gtk-devel --> Processing Dependency: WebKit-gtk = 1.0.0-0.4.svn29336.fc9 for package: WebKit-gtk-devel --> Running transaction check ---> Package WebKit-gtk.i386 0:1.0.0-0.4.svn29336.fc9 set to be updated ---> Package qt4-devel.i386 0:4.3.3-6.fc9 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: WebKit-gtk-devel i386 1.0.0-0.4.svn29336.fc9 development 19 k Installing for dependencies: WebKit-gtk i386 1.0.0-0.4.svn29336.fc9 development 2.8 M qt4-devel i386 4.3.3-6.fc9 development 6.5 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 3 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s)
Unfortunate as it might be, WebKit currently uses qmake and friends for its build scripts. Thus, it needs the qt4-devel package for those utilities and data files. Work is underway upstream to transition the GTK+ bits to autotools (since WebKit is/will be integrated with Qt in a future version). So once that is done the Fedora package will follow suit. Until then, however, both the Qt and GTK+ ports of WebKit both build using qmake, so this dependency is a necessary one. Thanks for the bug report!
Perhaps this is a confusion between BuildRequies <-> Requires? WebKit GTK part needs qt4-devel for BuildRequires, but WebKit-gtk-devel really need "Requires (not BuildRequies) qt4-devel"?
Well, if you look at the files which are bundled with the gtk-devel subpackage... $ rpmquery --fileprovide WebKit-gtk-devel /usr/include/WebKit /usr/include/WebKit/JavaScriptCore /usr/include/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/JSBase.h /usr/include/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/JSContextRef.h /usr/include/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/JSObjectRef.h /usr/include/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/JSStringRef.h /usr/include/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/JSStringRefBSTR.h /usr/include/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/JSStringRefCF.h /usr/include/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/JSValueRef.h /usr/include/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/JavaScriptCore.h /usr/include/WebKit/webkit.h /usr/include/WebKit/webkitdefines.h /usr/include/WebKit/webkitnetworkrequest.h /usr/include/WebKit/webkitwebframe.h /usr/include/WebKit/webkitwebview.h /usr/lib/libWebKitGtk.prl /usr/lib/libWebKitGtk.so /usr/lib/pkgconfig/WebKitGtk.pc ... you'll see there is a .prl file included. This file is something belonging to qmake. As fas as I know, developers of GTK-based applications don't use qmake for compiling their packages, so in my opinion this file can be safely removed. But that's something I leave up to the maintainer of webkit to decide.
I just checked the prl file and it seems to contain only information regarding how WebKit was built, now how to build applications against it. I'll fix this up shortly. Thanks for the information!
The .prl data and the qt4-devel runtime dependency have been removed from WebKit-gtk-devel in Rawhide; and thus I believe this issue has been appropriately fixed. Please re-open this bug with further details if this is not the case. Thanks.