[oe] why does gupnp depends on gnome-icon-theme?

[Burton, Ross]

On 10 April 2013 14:12, Nicolas Dechesne <ndec13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> i have noticed that gupnp (in meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity)
> depends on gnome-icon-theme, and I don't really understand why, see
>
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-multimedia/recipes-connectivity/gupnp/gupnp.inc#n5

That's historical, the only dependency on g-i-t is in gupnp-tools.
Patch welcome to remove it!

> i was able to build an image with gupnp even after patching DEPENDS to
> get rid of the dependency, and the main concern with this dependency
> is that it brings:
>
> RRECOMMENDS_${PN} = "librsvg-gtk"
> and as such attempts to build gtk+, while I am trying to make a
> directfb image without GTK.

That's also a bit annoying isn't it...  Maybe that should be removed
generally, and we'll leave it to distros/products to decide/know
whether they are using SVG icons or not.

Ross