ports/120526: x11-wm/xfce4-desktop, x11-fm/thunar: should depend on graphics/librsvg2

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 21 18:07:15 UTC 2008


Hiroto Kagotani wrote:
> 2008/2/21, marcus at freebsd.org <marcus at freebsd.org>:
>>  This cannot happen.  librsvg2 requires gtk20, and thus gtk02 cannot also
>>  depend on librsvg2.  It's been a problem discussed on freebsd-gnome@ before,
>>  but a good solution has not yet been proposed.  If you find one that does
>>  not introduce a dependency loop, then please file a new PR with patches.
> 
> I traced the thread about librsvg2 in freebsd-gnome@ archive.
> 
> I understand adding dependency can not solve this problem.
> Is it able to add some scripts in librsvg2 port to add/delete some lines
> in etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders on installing/deinstalling?

No, this is not possible.  The gtk-engine module that comes with 
librsvg2 needs GTK+ libraries and headers.  Therefore, librsvg2 REQUIRES 
gtk20, and thus gtk20 cannot require librsvg2.

Joe

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