Re: external dependencies; trolling for more feedback, pushing to make it official ; -)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 23:09 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> GARNOME does not roll or maintain source tarballs for developers.

But it's not so uncommon for GARNOME to patch its tarballs. Isn't that a
possible solution to this awkwardness, even if it's just for GARNOME?

> I do not know of any stable Linux distro that currently offers a new
> enough version of udev that provides libvolume_id.  At some point,
> hopefully in the near future, this will change. Until that time, a
> source tarball for libvolume_id will need to be made available in order
> to build HAL-0.5.8.x.

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