libxfcegui4/xfce4-modules

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri Feb 17 20:59:20 CET 2006


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Hey Edscott,

Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> 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.

All right, I've replaced xfrun4 with something that doesn't need
xfce4-modules.  Ok if I "svn rm xfce4-modules"?

Regards,
Brian

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