[gentoo-user] gdk-pixbuf

[gentoo-user] gdk-pixbuf

[Uwe Thiem]

Hi all,

this should probably asked on the developers list but I am not subscribed to 
it. Maybe, enough gentoo developers are on this list as well. ;-)

<rant>
Who made gdk-pixbuf dependent on gnome-libs?

>From the ebuild:

RDEPEND="media-libs/jpeg
    media-libs/tiff
    =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2*
    >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.1
    amd64? ( sys-libs/db )
    !amd64? ( <sys-libs/db-2 )
    >=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-r1"
# We need gnome-libs here, else gnome support do not get compiled into
# gdk-pixbuf (the GnomeCanvasPixbuf library )


It pulls gnome-libs and, through gnome-libs I guess orbit, in although it does 
not really depend on gnome. If there is an optional dependency on gnome it 
should respect my "-gnome" USE flag setting. 

Lot's of pure gtk apps depend on gdk-pixbuf but don't depend on gnome or 
orbit. I should be able to emerge that library without pulling all the other 
stuff in I have no use of.

</rant>

:-)

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] gdk-pixbuf

[Richard Fish]

On 3/15/06, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this should probably asked on the developers list but I am not subscribed to
> it. Maybe, enough gentoo developers are on this list as well. ;-)
>
> <rant>
> Who made gdk-pixbuf dependent on gnome-libs?

>From the ChangeLog:

*gdk-pixbuf-0.16.0-r6 (31 Mar 2002)

  31 Mar 2002; Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> gdk-pixbuf-0.16.0-r6.ebuild:

  GNOME support is no longer an option -- it is built-in automatically, because
  downstream applications tend to expect it in this package.

-Richard

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