Hi! On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 09:56:06AM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:09:12 -0700 > Ryan Niebur <ryanrya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > tag 493090 wontfix > > quit > > > > I think that this request is unreasonable. > Why is it unreasonable to not want useless dependencies? >
because they're small enough and they don't hurt anything? > > I don't see what the > > problem here is. gconf doesn't do anything evil, > I'm not going to comment on the evilness of gconf ;) > ummm...what problems does it cause you? or is the reason just that you are anti-GNOME? if that's the reason, then yes, your request is unreasonable. I honestly have no idea why you don't want the gconf libraries installed. > > and it's not really > > that big. just having it installed shouldn't hurt. also, there are > > many other packages which depend on gconf. > For instance my system is at the moment completely G-free. Now with the > dependency of wx on gconf, I can't update certain packages if I want to > keep it this way (which I want). > why? are you just assuming it's bad because it starts with a g? I'm confused what the problem is.. > > why don't you want wx to > > depend on it? > > I can understand, that from your, i.e. the package maintainer's, point > of view this request seems unreasonable. IMO the bug lies upstream. Why > would any non-GNOME software want to use gconf? Upstream seems to it's not non-GNOME software. this is the gtk version of wxwidgets. gtk, gstreamer, gconf, etc are all GNOME projects. > acknowledge that this is a bug, when they say "This probably could be > corrected"[1]. Unfortunately, at the same time they say "[...] but I > don't think we will do that". > > So the real solution would be to get upstream to "correct" this. But if > they are unwilling to do this, the second best thing is to factor this > out in the Debian package, so at least Debian users are not affected by > this bug. > is it possible to build with wxMediaCtrl disabled? anyway, I'm assuming that some package uses wxMediaCtrl. and I really don't want to go through the trouble to find out. Cheers, Ryan -- _________________________ Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com
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