Re: Gnome-VFS depending on bonobo

[Walter Landry <wlandry ucsd edu>]

Rodney Dawes <dobey free fr> wrote:
> On Pre , 2004-03-12 at 17:10, Walter Landry wrote:
> > Magnus Bergman <magnus bergman observer net> wrote:
> > > I'm just wondering if there is a good reason for gnome-vfs to depend on
> > > bonobo and orbit. Gnome-vfs could be very usable in many non-desktop
> > > programs, like for example a web-server. But with it's current
> > > dependencies it kind of discourages such usage. Would it be much work to
> > > reduce the dependencies of the gnome-vfs core to, perhaps, only glib?
> > 
> > FYI, I'm now using gnome-vfs in a command line client, so this would
> > definitely be nice for me.
> 
> gnome-vfs does not require a display at all. You can use it very easily
> without one.

I know.  The problem is if someone doesn't already have gnome-vfs
installed.  The dependencies are rather onerous.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry ucsd edu