Re: Merging gio into glib

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:30 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> 
> It will mean that applications linking to libglib will suddenly pull in
> more dependencies however. Thats not something that really happens with
> e.g. gobject, and for gmodule the extra library is from glibc.
> 
> For instance, isn't glib used on the Fedora initrd these days? That
> would mean we'd have to add dbus to the initrd too.

It's always a tradeoff between more .so's and more unused dependencies.
Sure one can leave gdbus out of the main .so.

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