Re: gnome-desktop for GNOME 3.22 will depend on libudev

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 11:23 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 25/06/16 13:55, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >     pnp-ids: Add --disable-udev command-line argument
>
> This is also a positive change for distributions that are neither
> exclusively Linux nor exclusively non-Linux (hello, Debian
> GNU/kFreeBSD).

There's no fallback implementation and while it will allow building,
this patch is temporary until we've moved the thumbnailing code out of
gnome-desktop.

>  It's a lot easier to make an --enable/--disable option
> conditioned on the kernel than it is to apply or unapply a patch
> conditioned on the kernel.

The --disable-udev flag is to support building gnome-desktop in
environments where udev isn't available, eg. Flatpak, not for non-
Linux. The fact that it helps "GNu/kFreeBSD" is purely accidental.