On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:49 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:14 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > Do shared-mime-info and desktop-file-utils fall into the same category > > > or does some functionality of programs fail to work if > > > desktop-file-utils and shared-mime-info aren't run? > > > > The latter. > > > > > Your post makes me think that some Core GNOME applications (nautilus? > > > gnome-panel? gnome-vfs?) make use of the data generated by > > > desktop-file-utils and shared-mime-info but nothing else. Is that true > > > or just a guess? > > > > Gnome in general, yes. That's why I'm arguing it should be the GNOME > > libs/core bits that should depend on these, not (all) individual apps. > > > If I'm reading your responses correctly, shared-mime-info and > desktop-file-utils must be run in order for Core Gnome to function > correctly. However, the application itself can run under KDE or another > environment with no errors or loss of functionality. > > I don't see a problem with changing the shared-mime-info section if > that's the case. (shared-mime-info's dependencies percolate through to > libgnome which should be required by anything depending on it and it > does have a scriptlet to update on install.) > I've made this change to the shared-mime-info section. Look it over and correct any wrong assumptions there. > dekstop-file-utils doesn't seem to have either a dependency into the > Core of Gnome or a scriptlet to care for the case where it is installed > later so even though this seems like a valid concept, those issues > should be resolved first. > I didn't change this one. Rex, have you opened an RFE in bugzilla to change desktop-file-utils and get something to depend on it? -Toshio
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