cvs commit: ports/x11/xterm Makefile pkg-plist

[Emanuel Haupt]

Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On 09/21/2011 02:58, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> > Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> >> This is a bit belated but why does xterm need a hard dependency
> >> on gnome?  Could you please look at making this optional so that
> >> those of us who don't run bloatware can turn it off.
> > 
> > Good point. I've just committed a patch that makes the installation
> > of desktop entries conditional.
> 
> What isn't clear to me is why the installation of the desktop entry
> depends on gnome at all. Why not just install the file? I ask because
> (at least) xfce also uses the desktop entries, so having them is
> useful for non-gnome cases as well.

>From what I understand "desktopfileutils" needs to be set in (USE|
WANT)_GNOME if there are *.desktop files installed. This is where some
gnome dependencies are pulled in.

Emanuel