[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#465774: Bug#465774: Bug#465774: xfce4-xfapplet-plugin: Add a "Provides: gnome-panel"

[Simon Huggins]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:47:02PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Simon Huggins, 14.02.2008 19:35:
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:22:05PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> >> It would be really useful if xfce4-xfapplet-plugin could be marked for
> >> providing gnome-panel so that applications requiring the latter can be
> >> used with the former without having to install the latter. I’m using
> >> Xfce here and don’t want to pull half of the GNOME desktop just
> >> because one application requires gnome-panel.
> > Do gnome-panel apps depend on gnome-panel by default?
> The application I’m planning to install (gnome2-globalmenu-applet)
> does but most of the other applets depend on libpanel-applet2-0.

Right.  Does it actually work if you install the deb with dpkg -i
--force-depends ?  If so that's a bug in gnome2-globalmenu-applet.

> > I'm not sure providing gnome-panel is sensible given we don't and it
> > might break other dependencies on gnome-panel.
> I can understand this, but xfce-xfapplet DOES provide something like
> gnome-panel after all. I don’t know how perfect the emulation is, but
> pretty much every applet which works in gnome-panel should also work
> with xfce-xfapplet. (Yeah, I know you know.)

This isn't the case I'm worried about.  I'm not bothered about allowing
applets to be installed without the panel.

I'm worried about install something else that really does depend on the
panel to be installed without and thus we end up breaking things.

I can't see much in apt-cache rdepends gnome-panel that isn't an applet
but imagine installing gnome-core after installing xfce4-xfapplet-plugin
and ending up without the panel ;)

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