On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:59:00 -0700 Andrei Thorp <garoth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Was it a warning or an error? If it was just a warning and thunar did > the right thing regardless, it sounds like it's a missing optdepends > as you say. If it actually stopped working or was hindered in some > way, it's probably a missing depend. > > Anyway, you're probably right. Libnotify is frequently an optional > dependency that adds a nice abstraction layer to notifications. One > thing that I found nifty is that my window manager/ DE (Awesome WM) > actually catches libnotify events and displays its own pop-ups. > > Cheers, > > -AT Well, it didn't unmount the thumbdrive and gave me the popup that said that libnotify was missing so I'd say missing depend. But otherwise thunar worked, and we have a number of packages where part of the functionality is broken without the optdepends, sometimes worse than a popup with an error message (segfault). So I merely guess that it's a runtime dependency in this case and therefor optdepend. Regards, Philipp
