On 06/08/2013 06:12 AM, Igor Živković wrote: > On 07.06.2013 19:37, Armin K. wrote: > > I guess it was a lot easier before GTK+3/GNOME3/D-Bus/systemd but I > would argue if a package builds, runs and does something useful without > some dependency then that dependency shouldn't be listed as required. It > doesn't matter if you explicitly have to disable it. It should be > categorized as optional and noted that it is required for XY package in > the book. > > Take for example VLC. As it stands now someone would think it can't be > compiled and used without D-Bus. This is just wrong. >
For me, VLC is useless without Qt4, too. I never actualy paid attention though, but we treat Recommended dependencies as Required (for our instructions), or to be precise "Don't inststall recommended dependencies unless you know what are you doing". > Another good example is NTP, which compiles and runs without libcap2 and > attr as long as you run it as root user. Since BLFS bootscripts don't > run it as root, libcap2 is listed as required but with no explanation > whatsoever. > That's a mistake on my side, I failed to explain it since I made the change to the bootscripts without checking the dependency. I was aware of that after someone posted it on the mailing list so I just added it to the required deps without any explanation or whatsover. > Gnash doesn't build if you explicitly don't turn off GConf. GConf > package requires D-Bus and recommends gobject-introspection, GTK+3 and > Polkit. Madness. > GConf was the main configuration system for GNOME untill the last few releases (untill it was obsoleted by GSettings). Since GNOME required a part of the GConf which required GTK+3, we set it as recommended. Same for Polkit, GNOME mostly requires it for permission granting, so we enable it in GConf, too. I am unsure if anything requires GTK+3 in GConf since the tool that mostly required it was gone in either 3.2.4 or 3.2.5 release. Again, I failed to check that. GConf is now being obsolete and I am just looking forward to the day when I can drop it completely (won't come anytime soon). -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
