Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 17:17:11 -0500 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why does www/gecko-mediaplayer build devel/dbus and devel/dbus-glib ? Message-ID: <20150202221711.GF24850@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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According to Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> on Mon, 02/02/15 at 17:07: > > 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). Thanks for the clarification. Much appreciated. Regards, web... -- /"\ ASCII RIBBON / William Bulley \ / CAMPAIGN AGAINST / X HTML E-MAIL AND / E-MAIL: web@umich.edu / \ LISTSERV POSTINGS / 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
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