Bug 169226 – xfce-base/thunar-0.8.0-r2 hard dependency on virtual/fam

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Dave Armstrong 2007-03-04 03:02:43 UTC]

Merging the latest xfce4 meta ebuild from ~x86 pulls thunar-0.8.0-r2, which "rdepends" on virtual/fam, which is not strictly necessary.  Considering the history of problems caused by gamin (which is merged to fulfill virtual/fam), I strongly encourage the the ebuild maintainers to make the dependency on virtual/fam optional, perhaps contingent upon the existing fam USE flag or other as seen fit, prior to introducing the affected packages into the stable branch.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-03-04 08:28:20 UTC]

Feel free to attach a patch to make this a configure option; until then it stays as it is...

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/automagic.xml

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2007-03-04 14:01:11 UTC]

Reopen when a patch has been sent to upstream. Drop us a copy too. Thanks.

[Comment 3 Dave Armstrong 2007-03-10 02:31:25 UTC]

Created attachment 112756 [details, diff]
patch to configure.in to build without fam

[Comment 4 Dave Armstrong 2007-03-10 02:41:37 UTC]

Created attachment 112758 [details, diff]
patch to thunar-0.8.0-r2.ebuild to support building without fam

These changes to the ebuild enable building thunar with or without fam, based on the presence of the "fam" USE flag.

[Comment 5 Dave Armstrong 2007-03-10 02:56:53 UTC]

The first attachment (thunar-0.8.0-configure.in.patch) belongs in xfce-base/thunar/files/, and will be applied during the build process by the modified ebuild (see second attachment).

I have not submitted anything upstream yet (but feel free to).

[Comment 6 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2007-03-10 06:37:35 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I have not submitted anything upstream yet (but feel free to).
> 

Please submit this upstream. We rather not deviate much from upstream unless really necessary. Please re-open when it has been addressed there.