Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:14:38 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: glib20 2.26.1 / dbus dependency Message-ID: <4CE8100E.4000104@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <30267073.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <30266638.post@talk.nabble.com> <4CE80968.60102@freebsd.org> <30267073.post@talk.nabble.com>
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On 11/20/10 1:07 PM, Jakub Lach wrote: > > > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> >> On 11/20/10 11:57 AM, Jakub Lach wrote: >>> >>> Hello. >>> >>> Why push dbus as required dependency? >>> >>> I manually deleted dbus dependency and added >>> --disable-dbus (just in case it's respected), >>> it compiled fine. >>> >>> Maybe WITHOUT_DBUS= knob could be added? >> >> DBus is now fundamentally required for many glib consumers in the GNOME >> space. The DBus code is interwoven into libgio, so it can't easily be >> added as slave port "extra." If you build glib without DBus you may >> surprised that some things just won't work. >> > > Thanks for reply, as I'm far from GNOME user, > I hope it doesn't affect me much. > > Currently I have installed: > > $ pkg_info -R glib-2.26.1 > Information for glib-2.26.1: > > Required by: > > desktop-file-utils-0.15_2 > gamin-0.1.10_4 > gstreamer-0.10.30 > gstreamer-plugins-0.10.30,3 > gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.20,3 > gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.25,3 > gstreamer-plugins-ogg-0.10.30,3 > gstreamer-plugins-theora-0.10.30,3 > gstreamer-plugins-vorbis-0.10.30,3 > gstreamer-plugins-vp8-0.10.20,3 > pl-openoffice.org-3.4.20101105 > shared-mime-info-0.71_1 > gio-fam-backend-2.26.1 > cairo-1.10.0_2,1 > gobject-introspection-0.9.12 > atk-1.32.0 > pango-1.28.3 > > However gstreamer is just for opera, and rest of > it is I believe just for OO.o (which is working fine > without gtk20 by the way), so I reckon I could be > safe. You should be safe for now. But things may start taking advantage of DBus and the GIO APIs for it at any time. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnomehome | help
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