Bug#550479: libgnome2-0: The library depends on a daemon?!

[Michael Biebl]

On 31.05.2012 10:37, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Package: libgnome2-0
> Followup-For: Bug #550479
> 
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
>> Some functions, like gnome_url_show, do not work at all without gvfs
>> installed.
> 
> That may be true, but not every application needs this functionality. In
> addition it gets worse, because gvfs pulls in udisks. Can you explain
> what part of udisks is needed in order to operate gnucash? I cannot and
> it happily worked without udisks before. So please have a second look at
> this dependency chain:
> 
> libgnome2-0 -> gvfs -> gvfs-daemons -> libgdu0 -> udisks
> 
> I would like to see one of these dependencies demoted in a Recommends.
> Can you tell me which one of them is the most likely candidate?
> 

udisks is only activated on demand, via D-Bus activation. So if
something is starting up udisks, it's because it requires it.
I don't see a problem with the current dependency chain and I'm not yet
convinced that we should demote any of the dependencies to Recommends.


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