On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 09:49 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 22:45 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As Archlinux distribution packagers, we would like to ship gnome-vfs with > > a gnome-mount dependency. This will not work somehow because of a > > recursive dependency loop: > > > > gnome-mount -> libgnomeui -> Libgnome -> gnome-vfs -> gnome-mount > > > > This will force us to build gnome-vfs two times: one time without > > gnome-mount and after the whole chain has been compiled, another time with > > gnome-mount support. > > You don't really need that i think. Enabling gnome-mount in gnome-vfs > just means it'll exec gnome-mount at runtime. I don't think you need > gnome-mount installed to build it.
But proper release practice would state that gnome-vfs should depend on gnome-mount, for the runtime packages, which means that you would need to have gnome-mount installed, to install gnome-vfs, so that you could build the rest of the tree, up to gnome-mount. If the runtime gnome-vfs package doesn't depend on gnome-mount, and were gnome-mount enabled, you would end up with an unstable dependency chain, and gnome-vfs may likely be unable to mount/unmount drives, as the tool used to do that, could be missing. I realize this has already been fixed by David's patch, but I had to point out this possibility, as it is useful knowledge to have, in the event that a similar problem occurs again, whether it be in gnome-vfs or another module. -- dobey _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
