Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:07:31 -0700 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why does www/gecko-mediaplayer build devel/dbus and devel/dbus-glib ? Message-ID: <54CFF523.4010807@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <20150202003750.GY19629@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20150202003750.GY19629@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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<snip> > Thanks. I did all those things, else how could I have mentioned the > dbus dependency on www/gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer-1.0.9 (it > is also "needed" by editors/abiword BTW). I'm not using dbus, as I > said, and I'm not really trying to determine how to disable this > dependency in other ports (if that is possible). I was merely > curious why any FreeBSD ports would have a dependency on dbus when it > is the stated intention of FreeBSD (IIRC) that dbus is not part of > the future direction. I appreciate your reply, but you did not > address that particular issue. Thanks again. Sorry if I misunderstood the question. I can't really address that. gecko-mediaplayer depends on gnome-mplayer; for what, I don't know. gnome-mplayer, being a gnome-centric app, probably has direct dependencies on dbus. A guess would be that getting rid of the dependency involves re-architecting gecko-mediaplayer to get rid of the dependency on gnome-mplayer, which may or may not even be reasonable. Or re-architecting gnome-mplayer to only use dbus optionally. I have no idea whether or not the maintainer of the gecko-mediaplayer port has a direct interest in doing that or not (not to mention the time). Gary
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