maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 193735] Allow to build graphics/evince without gnome support

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Matthieu Volat <mazhe at alkumuna.eu> has asked gnome at FreeBSD.org for
maintainer-feedback:
Bug 193735: Allow to build graphics/evince without gnome support
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193735


------- Additional Comments from Matthieu Volat <mazhe at alkumuna.eu>
Hello,

As graphics/epdfview continue to rot, there is little choice for a relatively
featured pdf viewer that do not sell a whole desktop environment.

Evince was supposedly modified to allow this by making the heaviest gnome
dependencies optional, but graphics/evince do not reflect this.

Would it be possible to have such an option? In the past, it would have taken
the form of a graphics/evince-lite slave port, but I had the impression those
kind of port were more or less dropped.

So here is a tentative for refactoring the evince makefile with a few gnome
options that can be turned off (it would have been simpler to have a single
GNOME option that turned on GCONF/GNOMEHELP/GNOMEKEYRING/NAUTILUS, but I
thought that it would be more helpful to have more options).

Of course, I suppose more refactoring is somehow needed and that it won't be
committed as such, but it's a start.