libbonoboui: needs libgnome?

[Nick Hudson]

Auke Kok wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 09:26:09AM -0500, Nick Hudson wrote:
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>>Ok just for looking at it briefly, I am getting this:
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>>libbonoboui depends on libgnomecanvas
>>libgnomecanvas depends on libglade2
>>libglade2 depends on expat, Python, libgnome and docbook-xsl
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>>Now what I dont understand is that when libbonoboui gets called and you 
>>do not have libglade2 or libgnomecanvas installed, the depends process 
>>should start.  I can add libgnome to the DEPENDS file for libbonoboui 
>>but it would be repetitive and would actually get called twice. 
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>>So do you have any ideas on why libgnome isnt getting picked up when it 
>>should be in the depends list??
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>ahh yes IC now... :
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>optional_depends "libgnome" "" "" "for GNOME support"
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>that's the problem... if it currently is not installed and you have answered 'no' before there's no way of picking it up automatically other than using 'lin -r libglade2'. This is why in this case it is just better to direcly add a *required* dependency to make sure you get libgnome from libgnomecanvas or the other one...
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>Nothing you can do anything about really... Just add it I would say
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>sofar
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Hmm it doesnt sa optional_depends for me, I think I might have changed 
it in GNOME_UNSTABLE, but I am not sure.  I will take a look at it and 
at least I will add it to libbonoboui.

Nick




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