Re: external dependencies

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 9/11/06, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> There was also a very strong sentiment that we should tighten up on
> the addition of new dependencies, moving to a must-be-approved-first
> rule for adding new dependencies.  I think doing such, in combination
> with freezing dependencies to specific versions[1], is necessary to
> fix the ridiculousness of the current build situation[2].
>
> I've put together a _preliminary_ page to help push these two ideas
> along at http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies.
>  There may be inaccuracies or omissions there, but it has the basics
> already.  Thoughts?  Comments?

Looks good. I'll point out there is a pkgconfig 0.21 now, which we may
want to put on that list, but it doesn't make any practical difference.
.
> Maybe a freedesktop-2.18.modules would be a good idea?  I kind of
> doubt gnome-2.14.modules would currently really build right now, given
> that freedesktop is such a moving target anyway...

Yes,