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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:32:55
Message-Id: e117dbb91003060332h7d45b6c0rae69568be07e3619@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps by Nirbheek Chauhan
1 On 6 March 2010 10:11, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
3 >>> If no, I can split off utils from poppler - with CMake it's effortless.
4 >>
5 >> We just rejoined the split poppler into one package again. So if you
6 >> are going to split it up again, you will have some explaining to do to
7 >> our users. I would like to prevent splitting, and see if we can fix maybe
8 >> the cups ebuild instead. Or maybe the gtk+ maintainers want to split
9 >> up their package... I understand they like that sort of thing.
10 >>
11 >
12 > These kind of pot-shots at Mart and the GNOME team are not welcome.
13 > Please desist from making such unproductive statements. This is
14 > precisely how flames begin, and this thread already has too much
15 > heated argument going on.
16
17 I'm sorry, it's just rubbing me the wrong way that many people here
18 assume that the best solution is to split poppler again, while not even
19 looking at other possible solutions. But let's try to be more constructive
20 instead.
21
22 Would it be possible to make cups a PDEPEND in gtk+ or is it really
23 needed at compile time?
24
25 The same for cups: can we make poppler a PDEPEND? Maciej, did
26 you get any further with looking into that?
27
28 And how about splitting cups, as Pacho mentioned, so that gtk+
29 would only need the lib?
30
31 Cheers,
32 --
33 Ben de Groot
34 Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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