Re: Moduleset Reorganization -- Take two

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 13:38 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
>> System Platform
>> ===============
>>
>> The System Platform is the set of libraries or dbus services that are
>> used in GNOME, but are modules belonging to lower parts of the stack.
>> We
>> encourage their use for GNOME applications.
>>
>> This set might change over the years, and API/ABI stability is up to
>> the
>> respective developers. However, we will encourage them to guarantee
>> stability.
>>
>> Candidates for this set include: ConsoleKit, NetworkManager, Xorg,
>> avahi, bluez, cairo, dbus, geoclue, gudev, libxml, pulseaudio, udisks,
>> upower.
>
> How is this different to the existing "External Dependencies"? If it's
> just a name change then it doesn't seem worth doing or mentioning.

System platform are things that we assume are present, and which do
not make sense to build e.g. as part of a jhbuild moduleset. Why do
you think clarification of that is not worth doing ?