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Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Feb 13 13:00:42 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:51 +0100, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> Dnia 06-02-2007, wto o godzinie 06:03 -0500, buildsys at redhat.com
> napisał(a):
> [..]
> > GConf2-2.16.0-6.fc7
> > -------------------
> > * Mon Feb 05 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 2.16.0-6
> > - Split off a -gtk subpackage to reduce dependencies 
> 
> IMO this split is kind of nonsens. Even if this split have some sense it
> is not all/it is buggy.
> 
> Why this split is buggy ? Because gnome-session requires and uses
> gconf-sanity-check-2 program (IIRC check for availability in build
> enviromet for gconf-sanity-check-2 is performed in autoconf suit of
> gnome-session and grep on gnome-session will show from where it is
> runed/used by gnome-session).
> So .. this split without add "Requires: GConf2-gtk" and "BuildRequires:
> GConf2-gtk" to gnome-session is plain bug.

Why don't you check the gnome-session spec before sending uninformed
mail ? I did add just those, at the same time as I did the split.

> 
> Why this split is kind of nonsens ? Because IIRC there is no program
> which uses GConf2 and not uses gtk+.
> 
> So .. if there is no packages which uses GConf2 and not uses gtk+ ..
> better will be reverte this split and keep gconf-sanity-check-2 in
> GConf2 binary package.

Do you think I did that just for fun ?
I have split it off because I have been asked by people who want to
use GConf with gtk+. 




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