[OE-core] [for-denzil][PATCH] gconf: Disable gtk support

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Sun Oct 7 06:06:32 UTC 2012


On Friday, 5 October 2012 at 07:26, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > There are only a couple of helper utilities within gconf that need gtk+ as a
> > dependency and those are unused and pretty useless. We might as well drop
> > the dependency on gtk and allow more parallel builds by reducing dependency
> > bottlenecks.
> 
> 
> 
> Except that gnome needs gconf-sanity-check, which is one of those "useless" binaries
>From gnome-session:

/* This probably means gconf-sanity-check wasn't found, which
 * really shouldn't happen, but we'll just ignore it for now as
 * long as gconf seems to be working later on... */ 

It's not needed - you'll get a console warning that it can't be found and that is all.  Fixing the spawn to handle the error case where the sanity check cannot be found to not even produce that console warning would be a good upstreamable fix.

Ross




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