ports/137368: x11-toolkits/libwnck: add menu option to configure dependence on x11/startup-notification

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 13:12 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:07 PM, <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Synopsis: x11-toolkits/libwnck: add menu option to configure dependence on x11/startup-notification
> >
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> > State-Changed-By: marcus
> > State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 8 21:05:58 UTC 2009
> > State-Changed-Why:
> > What is the purpose for making this optional?  startup-notification is not
> > that heavy, and is already required for other GNOME components.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137368
> 
> Startup notification is optional even for other ports that can use it.
> I'm attempting to make it possible to build a light desktop
> environment, based on Xfce. Removing the dependence on startup
> notification reduces the number of dependencies, mainly Python.

libgnomeui doesn't make this optional.  I can understand removing the
Python dependency, but startup-notification is quite light, and not
updated very frequently.  I just don't see how this adds much bulk.

Joe

> 
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
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