[OE-core] [PATCH 05/22] Update libnotify to version 0.7.6

Andreas Müller schnitzeltony at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 18 12:35:20 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Alexander Kanavin
<alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 06/17/2015 05:59 PM, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
>>
>> 0.6 is the last release that supports GTK+2 and changing this might
>> annoy people who are avoiding GTK+3 and are using some of the recipes
>> in meta-oe that depend on libnotify.
>>
>> I believe the GTK dependency is only there for tests: Modifying the
>> build so it doesn't build tests and doesn't depend on GTK should not
>> be difficult.
>
>
> There is no way to switch off tests building in libnotify, so dropping the
> gtk3 dependency means developing a custom source patch. I'd rather do that
> only if there are specific complaints.
>
I think gtk3 is not the problem here it is the API change libnotify
0.6 -> 0.7 which cannot (or only by ugly hacks) be installed parallel.
Do we know what happens to meta-gnome/meta-xfce?

Andreas



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