Re: [Tracker] Packages explanation

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2007/1/29, Deji Akingunola <dakingun gmail com>:
> > I, as maintainer of the Debian packages, want to keep the
> > deskbar-applet package separate. There are several reasons for this,
> > the most important one is, that I don't want to force people to
> > install the complete python/python-gtk  stack (which is necessary for
> > deskbar-applet), if people only want to run tracker-search-tool.
> >
> I don't know exactly how depencies work on Debian, but the above
> statement is not entirely true; tracker-deskbar.py doesn't have a
> hard-dependency on deskbar-applet, it acts sort of like a plugin. I
> don't have deskbar-applet installed on my fedora system, and
> tracker-0.5.4 (with tracker-deskbar.py installed) runs just fine here.

=======================
import gnome
import gobject
from gettext import gettext as _

import re,urllib
import os.path
import dbus

import deskbar
=======================

These are the dependencies of tracker-handler.py.
If you don't install them, trackerd itself will of course still run,
but the tracker deskbar-applet plugin won't.

Michael