On 4 May 2010 02:43, Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote: > > What's with your comments on GConf, that you use an older version > because the dependencies of 2.28 scare you? Those dependencies are > ORBit2, libxml2, dbus-glib, polkit, and gtk+ - a fairly small and > harmless set of packages... what's scary about them? >
polkit, and *it's* dependencies : not for the first time, you've caught me out on an oversimplified remark. > Regarding libbonobo and friends, they're still used in Gnome 2.30, but > only because one or two core packages (e.g gnome-panel) can't abandon > them completely without breaking backward compatibility. > > Also, regarding D-Bus, you comment "the last thing I need is for my > computer to second-guess what I want to do with something I've plugged > in". Uh, what does D-Bus have to do 'stuff you've plugged in'? It's just > a service for message passing between processes... it's got nothing to > do with hardware... > Technically true, but is it not there so that a random application can say "looks like you've plugged in a memory stick - would you like me to help you use it" ? ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
