Re: gdk-pixbuf dependency in gnome-libs

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

egger suse de writes:
> On  4 Mar, James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> >>  imlib was compiled. Why can't we get rid of Imlib?
> > Because we have public APIs that use GdkImlibImage.
> 
>  I've seen that but it looks to me like to progress has
>  been made on slowly deprecating them and providing alternatives
>  using gdk-pixbuf in the GNOME_1_2 branch. Unfortunately I really
>  forgot about this issue and now it's a bit late. :(
> 
>  I would have suggested to clean up the dependencies between 
>  gdk-pixbuf and gnome-libs (gdk-pixbuf depends on gnome-libs)
>  and let gnome-libs depend on gdk-pixbuf by moving the GNOME
>  specific stuff from pixbuf to gnome-libs. 
> 
>  Also is there any particular reason why we still have zvt in
>  gnome-libs?
> 

We can't do that stuff in the stable branch. These kind of things have
to be done in the unstable branch (GNOME 2).

Havoc