glib20 2.26.1 / dbus dependency

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 11/20/10 1:07 PM, Jakub Lach wrote:
> 
> 
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Thanks for reply, as I'm far from GNOME user, 
> I hope it doesn't affect me much.
> 
> Currently I have installed:
> 
> $ pkg_info -R glib-2.26.1
> Information for glib-2.26.1:
> 
> Required by:
> 
> desktop-file-utils-0.15_2
> gamin-0.1.10_4
> gstreamer-0.10.30
> gstreamer-plugins-0.10.30,3
> gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.20,3
> gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.25,3
> gstreamer-plugins-ogg-0.10.30,3
> gstreamer-plugins-theora-0.10.30,3
> gstreamer-plugins-vorbis-0.10.30,3
> gstreamer-plugins-vp8-0.10.20,3
> pl-openoffice.org-3.4.20101105
> shared-mime-info-0.71_1
> gio-fam-backend-2.26.1
> cairo-1.10.0_2,1
> gobject-introspection-0.9.12
> atk-1.32.0
> pango-1.28.3
> 
> However gstreamer is just for opera, and rest of
> it is I believe just for OO.o (which is working fine 
> without gtk20 by the way), so I reckon I could be
> safe.

You should be safe for now.  But things may start taking advantage of
DBus and the GIO APIs for it at any time.

Joe
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