Hi, Even after Andrew changed the dependency status of gobject-instrospection from recommended to optional in a few packages (which gave me the opportunity to look for what a PITA was :-D ), g-i is still de facto a recommended dep of gstreamer.
It is now gstreamer-plugins-good, which recommends libsoup (requires glib-networking, which requires gsetting-desktop-schemas, which requires g-i) and GConf (recommends g-i and a few others). As pointed out by Ragnar, gstreamer is one of the possible sound engines for KDE, so it is not pure GNOME, but the other packages are. Then if somebody is just interested in building KDE, I guess he could just build gstreamer with only the required dependencies. OTH, even after building KDE, the same user could be interested in building GNOME, say for comparison. Then, he would have to rebuild gstreamer with all recommended deps, but g-i is now optional. So, at first, I thought Andy was right when he put g-i optional. Now, I am not so sure. Maybe put it back recommended for gstreamer (not only its plugins), and the other packages too could make the book easier to follow. Hope I am not beginning a flame war... Regards Pierre -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
