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

[Eugen Dedu]

tags 513910 wontfix
thanks

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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.

Ok, marking as wontfix then (hope it is the right thing to do), thanks.

-- 
Eugen