[gnome-love] Getting rid of popt

[Luis Menina <liberforce fr st>]

Hi lovers !

I have a little question for you... I would like to help in getting rid 
of popt and replace it by GOption in the apps of the GNOME Desktop. This 
 was one of the goals stated by Vincent Untz for the next GNOME-Goals...

What I would like to know, is why popt still appears in some Makefiles 
generated by projects that don't use it ???

For example, popt is no more used by Gedit, but "grep popt Makefile" 
(notice the -lpopt in the third line), still has some results, even 
cleaning and jhbuilding -ac everything I can.


Makefile:GEDIT_LIBS = -pthread -L/opt/gnome2/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
-lgtksourcevie w-1.0 -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2 -lgnome-keyring 
-lgnome-2 -lpopt -lgla de-2.0 -lgnomeprintui-2-2 -lgnomeprint-2-2 
-lgnomecanvas-2 -lxml2 -lart_lgpl_2 - lpangoft2-1.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 
-lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocair o-1.0 -lpango-1.0 
-lfreetype -lz -lcairo -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2 -lgobject-2.0 
-lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lm -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lgl 
ib-2.0

So excuse my naive question is: Why is there this dependency to popt ? 
Is this an implicit dependency from another module ?

Hope someone will answer me, I tried on IRC, but find nobody to answer.
Thanks, ans keep speading the love ! ;-)