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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:46:16 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
To:        Jakub Lach <jakub_lach@mailplus.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: glib20 2.26.1 / dbus dependency
Message-ID:  <4CE80968.60102@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <30266638.post@talk.nabble.com>
References:  <30266638.post@talk.nabble.com>

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On 11/20/10 11:57 AM, Jakub Lach wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Why push dbus as required dependency?
> 
> I manually deleted dbus dependency and added
> --disable-dbus (just in case it's respected), 
> it compiled fine.
> 
> Maybe WITHOUT_DBUS= knob could be added?

DBus is now fundamentally required for many glib consumers in the GNOME
space.  The DBus code is interwoven into libgio, so it can't easily be
added as slave port "extra."  If you build glib without DBus you may
surprised that some things just won't work.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
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