[Pkg-xfce-devel] exo-utils?

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at corsac.net
Fri Jan 11 07:16:09 UTC 2008


On jeu, 2008-01-10 at 23:50 +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:19:27AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Else, we can just add a Depends: eject on libexo-0.3-0 (or maybe a
> > Recommends: would be enough).
> 
> Well it'd need to depend really.  eject is used when it's found in fstab
> as far as I can see.

And it's used when you do exo-mount -e.
> 
> What actually depends on bin/exo-* existing?  I don't think any of the exo
> library does that I can see.  So we'd end up with xfce4-panel (and
> probably most of the stuff that depends on the library) depending on
> exo-utils too.  That sounds sane.

Well, yeah. That's why it may be not that useful to do the switch. But I
guess it's “cleaner“ too to have binaries in a separate package.
Anyway on a standard desktop exo-utils will always be installed when
libexo-0.3-0 is installed.
> 
> Oh interesting.  xdg-utils would need to be updated to suggest exo-utils
> then.  We'd have to coordinate that.
> 
> Some of the bits wouldn't depend on -utils.  Shouldn't be too hard to
> work out which.  So yeah sounds good.
> 
> I can do bits of this but probably not much til Sunday.

Ok. I don't know when I'll have time to work on this. Anyway it'll have
to go to NEW so that may take some time more than expected.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis



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