Upgrade of xfce and slackware

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:01:31AM +0100, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Op do 27-11-2003, om 09:44 schreef Chris Green:
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe the non-base-system dependencies should be made more explicit.
> > > 
> > > You're not blaming us for the lack of dependency handling in slackware,
> > > are you?
> > > 
> > No of course not, I prefer it that way.
> > 
> > 
> > > If you read the install instructions on the web site you would have seen
> > > it is an optional dependency.
> > > 
> > Well I thought I'd checked through them reasonably well and now I've
> > gone back and taken a harder look and can't find anything listing
> > dependencies (not run-time ones anyway).  I certainly can't find it in
> > the documentation/installation section.  Where is it?
> 
> Ok, I apologise. It is not written clearly on the website at all. You
> can find it here:
> 
> http://members.home.nl/xfce4/documentation/xfce4-install.html#id2454838
> 
> "Optionally you can install librsvg >= 2.2, for SVG icon support, and
> libstartup-notification, to have a busy cursor when loading applications
> that support this standard."
> 
> It's not a run-time dependency, BTW, it is a build-time optional
> dependency.
> 
Well, yes, but I installed the Slackware 9.1 .tgz file pointed to from
the XFCE site and that (obviously) has been built such that it
requires libstartup-notification.  From my point of view it's a
run-time dependency!  :-)


> I'll ask the website maintainer to add a note about the optional
> dependencies.
> 
It might be worth getting Tom Newsom to add a note about this
dependency, it's his Slackware build that I used.  I'll send him an
E-Mail.


> Please, accept my apologies, I replied without checking the facts :(
> 
No need, I was just reporting a (minor) problem so that others could
know about it and avoid it.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)