Re: [Tracker] Packages explanation

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 09:16 -0500, Deji Akingunola wrote:
> >
> > =======================
> > 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.
> >
> Exactly my point; tracker-handler.py won't do a thing for you unless
> you have deskbar-applet installed. tracker-handler.py by itself
> doesn't pulled in deskbar-applet, but for people that uses (or want to
> use) deskbar-applet, they'll find tracker already provides a plugin
> that integrates well with the applet.

yeah and thats why I added it to the tarball

(it wont break anything if the plugin gets installed without deskbar or
python deps)

I guess its more of a no-no (or bad practice) with debian to do that
sort of thing...


jamie.