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Date:      Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:30:13 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/137368: x11-toolkits/libwnck: add menu option to configure  dependence on x11/startup-notification
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On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 15:34 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke<marcus@freebsd.org> wro=
te:
>=20
> > libgnomeui doesn't make this optional.  I can understand removing the
> > Python dependency, but startup-notification is quite light, and not
> > updated very frequently.  I just don't see how this adds much bulk.
>=20
> You don't need libgnomeui to run Xfce, so startup notification can be
> made optional for those who don't need/want to run GNOME. It is
> already intended to be optional in x11/Terminal, the default Xfce
> terminal emulator (and will *really* become optional, as soon as the
> patch I sent in ports/137371 gets committed).

The issue here is that libwnck changes its behavior when built against
startup-notification.  This may affect other ports which depend on
libwnck.  With libglade2, removing the Python dependency was a
no-brainer.  You just won't get the conversion script.  With libsn, the
problem is more subtle, and has the potential of hurting unsuspecting
users.

I understand what you want to accomplish, but I think in this case the
user benefit does not outweigh the risk.  This may be re-evaluated based
on user demand, but for now, I'm inclined to leave libwnck the way it
is.

Joe

>=20
--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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