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Date:      Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:08:38 +0200
From:      Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/xterm Makefile pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20110921210838.893ad8f0.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E7A23D3.5070509@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On 09/21/2011 02:58, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> > Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> >> This is a bit belated but why does xterm need a hard dependency
> >> on gnome?  Could you please look at making this optional so that
> >> those of us who don't run bloatware can turn it off.
> > 
> > Good point. I've just committed a patch that makes the installation
> > of desktop entries conditional.
> 
> What isn't clear to me is why the installation of the desktop entry
> depends on gnome at all. Why not just install the file? I ask because
> (at least) xfce also uses the desktop entries, so having them is
> useful for non-gnome cases as well.

>From what I understand "desktopfileutils" needs to be set in (USE|
WANT)_GNOME if there are *.desktop files installed. This is where some
gnome dependencies are pulled in.

Emanuel



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