[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] [Pkg-xfce-devel] notification-daemon-xfce and notification-daemon

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On ven, 2007-12-28 at 15:10 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 01:00:59PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > you're receiving this mail because you're maintaining a package wich can
> > use notification-daemon [1], a soft wich can display some nice
> > notification on your screen. It's a gnome software, wich requires gconf
> > and other gnome libs.
> > 
> > There is an alternative to notification-daemon, wich is
> > notification-daemon-xfce wich doesn't depends on gnome things (but does
> > depends on xfce libs):
> > 
> > The package is ready in our svn, but currently to be useful, I added the
> > following fields:
> > 
> >  Conflicts: notification-daemon
> >  Provides: notification-daemon
> > 
> > After a short talk with notification-daemon maintainer, it seems before
> > doing this I should be sure that notification-daemon-xfce works exactly
> 
> Say i've got a machine with both XFCE and GNOME users. Then probably the XFCE
> users want notification-daemon-xfce and the gnome users notification-daemon...
> Uhoh :)
> 
> Did you consider that situation?

Yeah, in that case, having maintainers use the n-d | n-d-x scheme would
help. Or maybe just Provides: notification-daemon in n-d, and not
conflict (I don't remember if I added the Conflicts: just in case or if
it really breaks everything)

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis