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

[Fryderyk Dziarmagowski <freetz gmx net>]

--- Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 17:54 +0100, Fryderyk Dziarmagowski wrote:
> > --- Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> 
> > > No, it isn't only a run-time dep, or at least shouldn't be. The
> > > gnome-mime-data doesn't have to be in the same place as the libraries
> > > you're installing, and gnome-vfs should still be able to find the files.
> > 
> > You can safely remove PKG check from configure and build g-vfs without
> > smallest problems. You can even run all major GNOME apps without it.
> > Forcing people to use something that is not needed it's IMO wrong.
> 
> You can do all sorts of shit manually if you want. That doesn't change a
> single thing. We enforce backwards compatibility. 

Enforcing backward compatibility at build time? What compatibility is
that? It's broken idea.

> Maybe some third party app still use the gnome-vfs APIs that use the old
> mime data. We don't just break it to save a few bytes.

Right. And in such case third party app should depend on
gnome-mime-data. Such app should force you to install it, because it
can't run without it.

-- 
Fryderyk Dziarmagowski