Bug 505444

Summary:	gnome-base/gconf-3.2.6: drop redundant gtk+ dependency and useflag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rafał Mużyło 2014-03-23 15:01:39 UTC

Awhile back, gconf used to install a helper program that used gtk+.

But long since that program has left the tarball.

Now, gtk+ is used only by noinst examples.

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2014-03-30 10:40:09 UTC

Not sure what is the purpose of --with-gtk=3.0 configure switch then :/

Comment 2 Rafał Mużyło 2014-03-30 11:20:51 UTC

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #1)
> Not sure what is the purpose of --with-gtk=3.0 configure switch then :/

That's actually quite simple: commit introducing gtk3 dates '2010-10-03 15:11:40 (GMT)' (configure.in), commit removing the helper program dates '2013-01-22 01:09:35 (GMT)' (gconf/Makefile.am).

Oh, and talking about commits, perhaps this would be a good point to cherry-pick those three made after 3.2.6 release, as the chances of them ever getting out of the repo are quite low by now.

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2014-04-05 07:49:11 UTC

+*gconf-3.2.6-r2 (05 Apr 2014)
+
+  05 Apr 2014; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
+  +files/gconf-3.2.6-gsettings-data-convert-paths.patch,
+  +files/gconf-3.2.6-mconvert-crasher.patch,
+  +files/gconf-3.2.6-spew-console-error.patch, +gconf-3.2.6-r2.ebuild,
+  -gconf-2.32.4.ebuild, -gconf-3.2.6.ebuild:
+  gtk is not really needed (#505444 by Rafal Muzylo), drop orbit as it's dead
+  for ages, nothing needs it in the tree and we really want people to not use
+  that and, instead, use dbus for GConf's IPC. Also apply patches from upstream
+  master branch. Drop old.
+