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

Nicolas Dechesne ndec13 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 13:55:24 UTC 2013


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.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!

ok. thanks. will send shortly.

>
>> 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.

i will not send this one, as i think more discussions might be
needed... and my initial issue is fixed with the first patch anyways.




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