On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 10:35 +0100, Nathan Wayde wrote: > Do you mind listing these Gnome dependencies, or at least your > proposed > PKGBUILD? > I've looked at this and I can see only 2 (gconf and libsoup-gnome). > Ofcourse that is based on the assumption that the pacma dependencies > are > correct(e.g good-plugins depends on x,y,z but only x is listed > because > it also depends only y and z). The GNOME dependencies involved: libsoup-gnome libgnome-keyring (gnome-keyring) gconf orbit2 libidl2 I don't consider this as a big problem, and I closed bugs about it before. The libsoup-gnome library adds proxy lookup and password lookup functionality to libsoup. GStreamer can work without it, but it will lose quite some functionality without it. The gconf*sink elements in GStreamer need gconf. Without this, there's no way to configure the audio and video element in a central place. Some applications even ask for this specifically. I listed the gnome-keyring dependency as optional, as it's a fake dependency added to libgnome-keyring. libgnome-keyring needs a keyring daemon, AFAIK the next version of KDE will also get one. In the future, GNOME applications using libgnome-keyring can read passwords from KDE password storage. Libidl2 isn't a big issue either, as firefox already depends on it. I haven't seen much Arch Linux desktop installations without firefox. Note that the hal plugin will get removed soon. The only application I know that could have benefit from this plugin is cheese, but that has been ported to libgudev since 2.30.0.
