On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 13:38 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:22:45 +1300 > Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 17:51 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > > > Roxterm is basically gnome terminal without the need to install Gnome. > > > What's not to like? > > > > According to my notes, Gnome Terminal (as of 3.0.1) depends on GTK+3 and > > VTE (same as Roxterm), plus GConf and gsettings-desktop-schemas. That's > > somewhat short of "need to install Gnome", particularly since the GConf > > dependency will be gone soon. Surely we don't need another terminal > > client in BLFS, just to avoid a single trivial dependency? > > Gconf depends on Orbit and polkit, it's not a trivial dependency. > However, the dependencies needed to install gnome-terminal do not > produce a working application: > > andy@doughnut:~$ gnome-terminal > GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will > not be saved or shared with other applications.
Oh yeah, that's dconf, a provider of the GSettings interface. Ultimately, everything in Gnome is abandoning GConf in favour of GSettings - which does away with some compile-time dependencies, but needs dconf (or some equivalent) at runtime. Apparently current versions of Gnome Terminal are partway through the migration, requiring both... I think the question still stands, though. Does BLFS need another terminal emulator? And also, does Roxterm really need to be in the book? From your instructions, it's a trivial configure/make/make-install build... something that any user could do with their eyes closed... Simon.
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