--- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 17:12 +0100, Fryderyk Dziarmagowski wrote: > > --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 12:52 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > > > > Hallo. > > > > > > > > It seems, that gnome-vfs-2.17.91 contains hard dependency on > > > > discontinued gnome-mime-data. I see no reason for it. Does anybody know? > > > > > > > > configure.in: > > > > PKG_CHECK_MODULES(... gnome-mime-data-2.0 ...) > > > > > > Backwards compatibility. There are deprecated functions in gnome-vfs > > > (which you wouldn't see with an all updated application base) which rely > > > on gnome-mime-data. > > > > It is a run time dependency. Putting the check into build time scripts > > makes no sense at all. > > No, it isn't only a run-time dep, or at least shouldn't be. The > gnome-mime-data doesn't have to be in the same place as the libraries > you're installing, and gnome-vfs should still be able to find the files.
You can safely remove PKG check from configure and build g-vfs without smallest problems. You can even run all major GNOME apps without it. Forcing people to use something that is not needed it's IMO wrong. > Any reason you dropped the mailing-list as a CC: anyway? sorry about that, pushed wrong reply button. -- Fryderyk Dziarmagowski _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
