Re: Getting libgnome* into shape

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> 
> the dependencies are, in fact, not the same.
> 
> with just C api, 2 libraries / applications cannot use features of each
> other.  ie, gal cannot call eel functions if eel calls gal functions.
> 
> however, if the glue between them is simply bonobo, they actually can
> use each other, instead of the one-way dependency tree we now have.

And this is a good idea because.... ;-)

> yes, both libraries depend on certain versions of each other. that is
> what package management systems are for.

Asking around, I'm told RPM will not be able to handle the cyclical
graph.

Havoc