On ven, 2007-12-28 at 15:10 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:00:59PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > you're receiving this mail because you're maintaining a package wich can > > use notification-daemon [1], a soft wich can display some nice > > notification on your screen. It's a gnome software, wich requires gconf > > and other gnome libs. > > > > There is an alternative to notification-daemon, wich is > > notification-daemon-xfce wich doesn't depends on gnome things (but does > > depends on xfce libs): > > > > The package is ready in our svn, but currently to be useful, I added the > > following fields: > > > > Conflicts: notification-daemon > > Provides: notification-daemon > > > > After a short talk with notification-daemon maintainer, it seems before > > doing this I should be sure that notification-daemon-xfce works exactly > > Say i've got a machine with both XFCE and GNOME users. Then probably the XFCE > users want notification-daemon-xfce and the gnome users notification-daemon... > Uhoh :) > > Did you consider that situation?
Yeah, in that case, having maintainers use the n-d | n-d-x scheme would help. Or maybe just Provides: notification-daemon in n-d, and not conflict (I don't remember if I added the Conflicts: just in case or if it really breaks everything) Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
