Re: gnome-vfs-2.17.91 hard dependency on gnome-mime-data

[Fryderyk Dziarmagowski <freetz gmx net>]

--- Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 17:12 +0100, Fryderyk Dziarmagowski wrote:
> > --- Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 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.

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Fryderyk Dziarmagowski