libxfcegui4/xfce4-modules

[Edscott Wilson Garcia]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

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> Hey all,
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> 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.
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> 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?
>

Xfrun still uses it, but that could be switched to use the improved 
modules in libxffm. Xfrun needs to be fixed anyways, it's much too clunky on cold starts.

regards,