The bonobo build-process creates and installs libtool library files which should be in the -devel package also: $ ls /var/tmp/bonobo-1.0.17-root/usr/lib/*.la /var/tmp/bonobo-1.0.17-root/usr/lib/libbonobo-print.la /var/tmp/bonobo-1.0.17-root/usr/lib/libbonobo.la /var/tmp/bonobo-1.0.17-root/usr/lib/libbonobox.la /var/tmp/bonobo-1.0.17-root/usr/lib/libefs.la $ rpm -ql `rpm -qa | grep bonobo` | grep .la /usr/bin/bonobo-slay /usr/bin/bonobo-audio-ulaw /usr/bin/bonobo-text-plain /usr/lib/bonobo/monikers/libmoniker_std.la /usr/lib/bonobo/plugin/libstorage_efs.la /usr/lib/bonobo/plugin/libstorage_fs.la $ rpm -qa | grep bonobo bonobo-activation-0.9.3.90-1 bonobo-devel-1.0.17-1 bonobo-1.0.17-1 bonobo-activation-devel-0.9.3.90-1
Does anything actually want these files? (other than other .la files from compiled when bonobo .la files were installed)
Don't know if a specific package needs them, but libtool uses them to determine dependencies at static linking.
But you'd normally link bonobo using the output of "gnome-config --libs bonobo" which already has all the deps, right.
You're right. Closing the bug...