[Thunar-dev] GConf? [WAS Re: Problems building new Thunar snapshot]

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Fri Nov 11 23:17:23 CET 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:05 -0800, Auke Kok wrote:
> as long as Benny uses autoconf to detect the presence of GConf and then 
> use that information to turn it on or off I see no reason to provide a 
> default - this is why we use autoconf right?
> 
> the only people who have a tough choice are the ones making binary 
> packages ;^)

Indeed, and that's the vast majority of distributions...

Autoconf detects what the one who builds the binary has at the time of
the build, which is not necessarilly what is suitable for all users.

Cheers,
Olivier.





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