why does www/gecko-mediaplayer build devel/dbus and devel/dbus-glib ?

[William Bulley]

According to Gary Aitken <freebsd at dreamchaser.org> on Mon, 02/02/15 at 17:07:
> 
> Sorry if I misunderstood the question.  I can't really address that.  
> 
> gecko-mediaplayer depends on gnome-mplayer; for what, I don't know.  
> gnome-mplayer, being a gnome-centric app, probably has direct dependencies
> on dbus.  A guess would be that getting rid of the dependency
> involves re-architecting gecko-mediaplayer to get rid of the
> dependency on gnome-mplayer, which may or may not even be reasonable.
> Or re-architecting gnome-mplayer to only use dbus optionally. 
> I have no idea whether or not the maintainer of the gecko-mediaplayer port 
> has a direct interest in doing that or not (not to mention the time).

Thanks for the clarification.  Much appreciated.

Regards,

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