Re: New dependency?

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:56 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > 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...
> 
> Ah, yes -- for some reason I forgot about an option like this.  Yes,
> this would be a third way to solve the issue if you would prefer to go
> this route.  :)

Nice :), I'll take that path then, seems to be the best solution for all

	Regards