Re: New dependency?

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:47 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like system-tools-backends now has a hard dependency on
> Net::DBus (perl bindings to dbus).  I don't recall seeing this
> discussed anywhere (my apologies if I missed it), and I'm not sure

Probably due to my ignorance, I thought that being an external module it
was more or less safe to add a dependency, my apologies.

> that the community would be accepting of it as a dependency for the
> Gnome desktop (I'm not saying it wouldn't be, just that I'm not sure
> it would be).  Granted, system-tools-backends is classified as an
> external module, but gnome-system-tools depends on it.  We'll need to
> get this resolved somehow; either making it a soft dependency or
> getting community consensus to accept it (and possibly thus blessing
> perl bindings in general).  Suggestions?

Making it a soft dep will be hard unless you ditch g-s-t... Maybe
keeping an internal copy of Net::DBus in s-t-b (and using if no external
copy is found) could be a solution? this would make s-t-b architecture
independent for packagers and dependency-less for the rest...

Blessing all Perl GNOME bindings just for using DBus seems overkill to
me...

> 
> Thanks for all your hard work on GNOME system tools.  :)

Thanks a lot :)... I still have to see if it was worth the effort :P

	Regards

> 
> Elijah