[oe] Howto break circular dependencies for gvfs / gnome-disk-utility / nautilus

[Andreas Müller]

Hi

I have tested by manual rebuilding/installation: To make thunar-volman properly 
mount removable devices, gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor ( gdu = gnome-disk-utility ) is 
required. For a build from scratch gvfs configure disables this because it can 
not find gnome-disk-utility. As mentioned in a comment of gvfs recipe, gnome-
disk-utility can not be added to DEPENDS because of circular dependencies:

nautillus depends gvfs
gvfs depends gnome-disk-utility
gnome-disk-utility depends nautilus

The only possible solution for this I see right now is to add a dummy build: 
E.g: Within gvfs-recipe before configuring gnome-disk-utilty is configured / 
compiled and installed. After install all stuff from gnome-disk-utilty is removed 
and gnome-disk-utilty is only made RDEPENDS. Since this is a very dirty hack 
which causes extra maintenance when gnome-disk-utilty version changes:

Does anybody have a better solution to break the circular dependency without 
causing plugins/libs missing?

All suggestions welcome :)

Andreas