On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Sid <[email protected]> wrote: > devel/pycanberra > > audio/freedesktop-sound-theme hasn't been tested for most ports that ask > for libcanberra, and I haven't tried it on any port yet either. The source > for pycanberra may need patches to work with freedesktop-sound-theme. You > could include both as options. If they conflict, you'll have to use > OPTIONS_RADIO (single choice). In any case, libcanberra should drop gtk > requirements, but they may be reluctant to do so. pycanberra's name implies > it's for libcanberra. > > IMO, it's better to clean up as many ports before flavors comes along, > because then, there will be more excuses to not remove bloat. > > blubee blubeeme; Tue Dec 19 03:01:07 UTC 2017 > > quick question, I am porting py-canberra which isn't required but an > optional dependency for another port that I am working on. > > ibus-cangjie. > > > The ibus-cangjie port needs py-gobject anyways; so a whole lot of gtk > stuff gets pulled in. > > I wonder should I leave it as is or make a dependency from this thing > you're working on instead? > > > I was waiting for @flavors to calm down before I started working on the > port again. > > >> Canberra is an audio application for playing simple sounds like "DING!". > >> For playing sound, I am convinced that graphical dependencies for > audio/libcanberra and audio/libcanberra-gtk3 aren't needed: > x11-toolkits/gtk30, x11-toolkits/gtk20, accessibility/atk. > >> According to Freshports, both libcanberra and libcanberra-gtk3 refer to > the file libcanberra-0.30.tar.xz of the same SHA256 and size. > >> The difference between these two is one pulls in gtk3 as well. > > >> Pango is for left to right text, perhaps for displaying audio > information to the user. > >> Its description is its "code is platform- and toolkit-independent." > >> For it to display a simple banner or visual it shouldn't require heavy > graphical dependencies. > >> Also, Pango should be made into an option for Canberra, so it can > definitely be compiled without atk, gtk30 or gtk20. > >> Pango doesn't require these three graphical dependencies, so Canberra > especially shouldn't. > >> USE_GNOME should also be a Makefile option in ports that are only about > sound (libraries, applications, audio server components) and not graphics. > > >> libcanberra and libcanberra-gtk3 should be replaced with > audio/freedesktop-sound-theme. > >> Pango appears to be a different implementation of Bango, which is not > in ports, but here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bango/[https://www. > freedesktop.org/wiki/Bango/]. >
py-canberra is just a python wrapper for libcanberra, I agree that ports should be cleaned. I'll get back to that in the coming days, I have some soldering and other things keeping me a bit tied up atm. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
