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mate-desktop / mate-common

Common scripts and macros to develop with MATE
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Is this needed for building from the release tarballs? #17

Closed ghost closed 8 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

I wonder wether this package is really needed if I don't build from the git repositories of the other MATE packages, because in the release tarball autogen.sh doesn't need to be run. But for example the Arch Linux PKGBUILD for caja mentiones it as a make dependency (see https://github.com/mate-desktop/archlinux-packages/blob/master/caja/PKGBUILD).

raveit65 commented 8 years ago

Well, i don't think that any package needs it as direct dependency. When Mate was started we didn't use 'make dist' to create a tarball, so it was needed to create the make files before building. And for fedora we use it to pull in some general deps to build the mate stack. Btw. mentioned mate-icon-theme in your link can be removed for sure.

ghost commented 8 years ago

Ok, thanks. I just wanted to be sure wether there's nothing affected when I build it without mate-common.