--- Alexander Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 17:54 +0100, Fryderyk Dziarmagowski wrote: > > --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > You can do all sorts of shit manually if you want. That doesn't change a > single thing. We enforce backwards compatibility.
Enforcing backward compatibility at build time? What compatibility is that? It's broken idea. > Maybe some third party app still use the gnome-vfs APIs that use the old > mime data. We don't just break it to save a few bytes. Right. And in such case third party app should depend on gnome-mime-data. Such app should force you to install it, because it can't run without it. -- Fryderyk Dziarmagowski _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
