Re: [gnome-love] Introducing a dependency

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 4/14/06, jim Pharis <binbrain gmail com> wrote:
> I'm curious about what the policy is on introducing a new library
> dependency into a Desktop GNOME package. To continue with the example
> given at http://developer.gnome.org/documents/joining-gnome/addingapps.html.
> Say for example, you enhance an existing applet, but in order to do so
> you add a new library dependency that's not currently in the GNOME
> Platform or Desktop sources. Does the package maintainer just need to
> approve the new dependency?

The maintainer would need to approve it and it would need to be
brought up on d-d-l (desktop-devel-list) in case there are any
objections (the latter requirement is there to try to avoid an
explosion of external dependencies -- or, at least not make it much
worse than it already is).