libxfcegui4/xfce4-modules

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Sun Feb 5 09:42:23 CET 2006


Brian J. Tarricone schreef:
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> Hey all,
> 
> I guess this could possibly be a sensitive subject, but I'm wondering if
> it wouldn't be a bad idea to remove xfce4-modules from libgui, and keep
> it with xffm, since AFAIK xffm is the only piece of software that uses
> it (assuming it still *does* use it).  I'd hesitate to call it API/ABI
> breakage since they're all separate libraries, and packagers can just
> rely on another package to get xfce4-modules if another app requires them.
> 
> My reasoning is that, since no core part of xfce uses xfce4-modules, and
> we've been trying to reduce dependencies and package load, it seems to
> make sense to move it elsewhere.  Thoughts?
> 

Sounds reasonable enough. I thought xfrun was using them (optionally?), 
but there seems to be an interest in rewriting that, so that won't be a 
problem.

	Jasper




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