Kalev Lember wrote: > On 11/30/2015 09:45 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> I don't recall exactly, but I think one reason was because it would be >> added >> a hundred times all over. In this particular case, we're saving .spec >> scriptlets but (re)adding dependencies, so arguably not much >> simplification gained. > > RPM has pretty good support for autogenerating dependencies these days. > If it turns out it makes sense to have the dependencies, I'm sure they > can be made completely automatic without needing to manually add > anything in individual spec files. > > Although I am not sure it's worth much effort because like mclasen wrote > above, desktop-file-utils is going to be always installed in a > Workstation install. :) I'm ok with it being automatic, as long as the dep is only added when really needed (ie, only when .desktop files include any MimeType= keys) >> I suppose the flipside is that *something* should depend on desktop-file- >> utils (ideally something low-level)... maybe any library (or app) that >> expects xdg mimetype support to be present, so for starters that could >> include stuff like: >> glib2, qt >> (similar arguments can be made for update-mime-desktop and >> gtk-update-icon- cache scriptlets) > > gtk2 and gtk3 already have a hard dependency on gtk-update-icon-cache. > Not sure if glib2 is a good place for desktop dependencies glib (gio) is where some mime handler functions live, for example: https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/gio-GContentType.html I think it not unreasonable to expect those to "just work". -- Rex -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
