On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 20:33 +0200, JM wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 17:17 +0200, JM wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 22:48 +0200, JM wrote: > >> >> Hello, > >> >> > >> >> I noticed that libsoup in [testing] depends on gconf, is that really > >> >> necessary? Libsoup is a dependency for some desktop-agnostic applications > >> >> such as Midori (through its dependency on libwebkit) or hardinfo (currently > >> >> in AUR). > >> >> > >> >> Regards, > >> >> JM > >> > > >> > This is a temporary bugfix. At this moment the libproxy code in libsoup > >> > is unstable, so the libsoup developers decided to disable libproxy and > >> > use gconf instead for proxy detection. The changelog states that it's a > >> > temporary solution that will be worked out for 2.26.0. With 2.26.1, the > >> > dependencies will be the same as we had with the 2.25.x release which > >> > was in testing for a while. > >> > > >> > > >> > >> libsoup 2.26.1-1 still carries the dependency on gconf. Has the > >> situation changed? > >> > >> Regards, > >> JM > > > > No it hasn't, as this needs to be fixed inside libproxy. Libproxy is not > > threadsafe when it calls into gconf, so libsoup calls into GConf itself > > to get the proxy information and passes the information to libproxy. > > Until libproxy is fixed to do threadsafe calls into GConf, the > > dependency on GConf will stay. > > > > > > I mistakenly assumed that the problem had lied within libsoup not > libproxy. Thanks for clarifying that. > > Regards, > JM gconf only depends on orbit2>=2.14.17 gtk2>=2.16.0 libxml2>=2.7.3 policykit>=0.9 libldap>=2.3.43 It has no dependencies on "ugly" gnome libs (libgnome, libbonobo) so non gnome users shouldn't have problem with it.
