Bug#513910: libgtk2.0-0: Should depend on gvfs?

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 02 février 2009 à 11:56 +0100, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> Subject: libgtk2.0-0: Should depend on gvfs?
> Package: libgtk2.0-0
> Version: 2.14.7-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> For experimental version, gtk >= 2.14:
> 
> With the replacing of libgnome(ui), the new function to show the help
> is gtk_show_uri, but it seems it needs gvfs.  Shouldn't libgtk2.0-0 
> depend on gvfs?

We could make libgtk2.0-0 depend on gvfs, but this sucks hard, since
gvfs depends on D-Bus and GConf so we would get hung by maintainers of
applications depending on GTK+.

The solution that was chosen so far is to make all applications using
gtk_show_uri or g_app_info_launch* recommend or depend on gvfs,
depending on how the functionality is important.

I think these parts of the GIO API really suck; to avoid having a hard
dependency on GConf, they replaced it by a soft dependency, meaning you
can’t rely on the fact dependencies are installed for the functions you
use to work correctly.

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