On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 18:38, Vitaly Shevtsov <shev.vt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can desktop-file-utils be optional for xterm? Because this dependence > requires heavy glib2 and it seems removing it from x11/xterm/Makefile > has no side effects.
There are probably two obvious approaches to this. The simpler would be to add a desktopdb option to xterm/options.mk (defaulting to on), though all other packages including sysutils/desktop-file-utils/desktopdb.mk should really be updated to match A better approach would probably be to adjust desktop-file-utils/desktop.db.mk to not depend on the desktop-file-utils package, and desktop-file-utils/files/install.tmpl to check for the presence of UPDATE_DESKTOPDB before calling it. desktop-file-utils already calls UPDATE_DESKTOPDB on install, so it should Just Work... I might have a poke at this later :) David
