tags 513910 wontfix
thanks
Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le lundi 02 février 2009 à 11:56 +0100, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
Subject: libgtk2.0-0: Should depend on gvfs?
Package: libgtk2.0-0
Version: 2.14.7-1
Severity: normal
For experimental version, gtk >= 2.14:
With the replacing of libgnome(ui), the new function to show the help
is gtk_show_uri, but it seems it needs gvfs. Shouldn't libgtk2.0-0
depend on gvfs?
We could make libgtk2.0-0 depend on gvfs, but this sucks hard, since
gvfs depends on D-Bus and GConf so we would get hung by maintainers of
applications depending on GTK+.
The solution that was chosen so far is to make all applications using
gtk_show_uri or g_app_info_launch* recommend or depend on gvfs,
depending on how the functionality is important.
I think these parts of the GIO API really suck; to avoid having a hard
dependency on GConf, they replaced it by a soft dependency, meaning you
can’t rely on the fact dependencies are installed for the functions you
use to work correctly.
Ok, marking as wontfix then (hope it is the right thing to do), thanks.
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Eugen
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