Re: gnome-vfs-2.17.91 hard dependency on gnome-mime-data

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 12:52 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Hallo.
> 
> It seems, that gnome-vfs-2.17.91 contains hard dependency on
> discontinued gnome-mime-data. I see no reason for it. Does anybody know?
> 
> configure.in:
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(... gnome-mime-data-2.0 ...)

Backwards compatibility. There are deprecated functions in gnome-vfs
(which you wouldn't see with an all updated application base) which rely
on gnome-mime-data.

We won't be able to securely remove the dependency until we break
backwards compatibility fully.

Cheers

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>