why does www/gecko-mediaplayer build devel/dbus and devel/dbus-glib ?

[Gary Aitken]

<snip>

> Thanks.  I did all those things, else how could I have mentioned the 
> dbus dependency on www/gecko-mediaplayer and gnome-mplayer-1.0.9 (it 
> is also "needed" by editors/abiword BTW).  I'm not using dbus, as I 
> said, and I'm not really trying to determine how to disable this 
> dependency in other ports (if that is possible).  I was merely 
> curious why any FreeBSD ports would have a dependency on dbus when it
> is the stated intention of FreeBSD (IIRC) that dbus is not part of
> the future direction.  I appreciate your reply, but you did not 
> address that particular issue.  Thanks again.

Sorry if I misunderstood the question.  I can't really address that.  

gecko-mediaplayer depends on gnome-mplayer; for what, I don't know.  
gnome-mplayer, being a gnome-centric app, probably has direct dependencies
on dbus.  A guess would be that getting rid of the dependency
involves re-architecting gecko-mediaplayer to get rid of the
dependency on gnome-mplayer, which may or may not even be reasonable.
Or re-architecting gnome-mplayer to only use dbus optionally. 
I have no idea whether or not the maintainer of the gecko-mediaplayer port 
has a direct interest in doing that or not (not to mention the time).

Gary