Re: Woody source frustration!
Christian Marillat wrote:
> >>>> "ACPI" == Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu> writes:
>
> ACPI> First, I would like to apologize for my messages to this list last
> ACPI> week. The intentions behind them were good, and I still think most of
> ACPI> the content of the posts was useful, but I definitely crossed the line
> ACPI> from constructive criticism to unnecessarily harsh flaming. After
> ACPI> all, we are all volunteers here. Please accept my apology.
>
> Accepted.
Thank you.
> Now I need to know, if you can build the gnome-core package without gtkhtml ?
>From my last message:
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > I've enabled --enable-gtkhtml-help for user's request.
> >
> > ACPI> As a temporary workaround, I'll try building gnome-core without
> > ACPI> gtkhtml, so I at least have a functioning desktop.
> >
> > I think this should work.
> >
> > If this work I can remove --enable-gtkhtml-help and libgtkhtml dependencies.
>
> Okay, this all works, that is, it is possible to build gnome-core with
> --enable-gtkhtml-help and without gtkhtml installed. (The configure.in is intelligent
> enough to look for gtkhtml, and not finding it, to fall back on gtkxmhtml for
> gnome-help.)
>
> As to whether libgtkhtml should be removed as a dependency, I don't think this should
> be done, even in spite of all of the gtkhtml build problems. If the feature enhances
> gnome-help, and can be built using existing Debian packages (at least in theory), then
> it should probably be there. (Maybe there should be Build-Suggests for this type of
> issue? :-)
>
> On to another topic, I still feel it's odd to have gnome-control-center depend on
> gnome-core, and wonder if this (binary) dependency should be removed. It's puzzling
> to be building and installing the source packages in the proper order and have one of
> the built binaries be uninstallable because of a missing dependency- which isn't
> supposed to be built yet. But this is just my opinion, I don't see anything in Policy
> on circular dependency.
>
> Thank you again for your helpful reply, and I will try to be more civil in future
> posts.
-Adam P.
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