On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:50:42PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:12 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Hi, > > I just saw on this page > > > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies > > that the Hal version for GNOME 2.17 is 0.5.7, yet GNOME Power Manager > > 2.17.1 requires Hal 0.5.8. Has the page not been updated yet? > > Not quite. gnome-power-manager *requires* 0.5.6, works better with > 0.5.7, but if you provide 0.5.8 then lots of cool extra stuff starts > happening. New stuff includes cpu frequency scaling support and better > LCD integration. > > I think the decision was to base 2.17 on 0.5.8[.x] as this is *vastly* > better than 0.5.7 but this is my own impression only. Please, don't inflate GNOME dependences on non-technical merit. If some program can be compiled with library version X, it's NOT OK to depend on library version X+1 or X+2. G-P-M is good example: its real dependency is HAL 0.5.6. Requiring higher version is unfair to users. -- Tomasz Torcz Only gods can safely risk perfection, zdzichu irc -nie spam- pl it's a dangerous thing for a man. -- Alia
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