Bug 279782 – virtual/notification-daemon is necessary

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) 2009-07-31 11:09:33 UTC]

There are some imprementations for notification-dameon. 
They conflict each other and interchangeable.
I suggest to provide virtual/notification-daemon.

- x11-misc/notification-daemon
- x11-misc/notification-daemon-xfce
- x11-misc/xfce4-notifyd
- notify-osd(in my overlay[1])

depends on notification-daemon:
- x11-libs/libnotify
- net-wireless/blueman

[1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=dev/matsuu.git;a=tree;f=x11-misc/notify-osd

[Comment 1 MATSUU Takuto (RETIRED) 2009-07-31 11:10:19 UTC]

Created attachment 199728 [details]
virtual/notification-daemon-0.ebuild

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-07-31 11:31:11 UTC]

Seems totally useless as libnotify is the "virtual" already.

PDEPEND="|| ( x11-misc/notification-daemon
                x11-misc/notification-daemon-xfce
                x11-misc/xfce4-notifyd )"

Just add your daemon in.

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-07-31 11:39:38 UTC]

And even if your app doesn't use the library itself, there's:

x11-libs/libnotify (/usr/bin/notify-send)

It's pretty hard for apps to send anything to notification daemons without notify-send, command, or functions