I have a Gentoo installation without gconf and friends. I always have to edit the Pidgin ebuild to get rid of the gconf dependency: twinsun ~ # diff /usr/portage/net-im/pidgin/pidgin-2.7.3.ebuild{.orig,} 42,43c42 < media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta < media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf ) --- > media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta ) I've been doing this for months (with or without gconf installed) and had no problems. Please consider making the Pidgin ebuild not depend on gconf and its dependencies. Thanks! Reproducible: Always
It actually is hardcoded to depend on gconf*src on Linux unless you manually change the config. It's a GTK+ program, it depends on gconf. Hopefullky soon it will be ported to GSettings, but in the meantime, such is life.
(In reply to comment #1) > It actually is hardcoded to depend on gconf*src on Linux unless you manually > change the config. It's a GTK+ program, it depends on gconf. Hopefullky soon it > will be ported to GSettings, but in the meantime, such is life. You've got to be kidding! I have tens of GTK+ programs installed here and none of them depend on Gconf: the whole of Xfce and some Xfce apps, Audacious, Linphone, Sylpheed, Transmission etc. Pidgin is also one of them and I see no reason to install Gconf and friends just because you don't understand the basics of GTK+, Gconf and gst-plugins-gconf. Someone give me a better reason than this before marking my report as invalid... Thank you!
This is duplicate of bug 283254. Please, read reasoning there. It is possible to use pidgin without gconf, but usability of video/voice is quite reduced... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 283254 ***
Ah, I see... What a mess! I'm disabling gstreamer for pidgin, I don't need that stuff for now anyway. Thanks! Closing...
