Dependencies on external dead projects

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:50:08 -0800, "Brian J. Tarricone"
<bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:08:48 +0500, "Alexander E. Patrakov"
> > <patrakov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>> Xfce4-tips just needs to be fixed: ie. display our tips without the
> >>> dependency on fortune. That not very hard to do, but as always,
> >>> shouting at other people is one thing, helping them the other one...
> >> I see. Unfortunately, during the next week I have to go to a semiconductor 
> >> conference, so this has to wait a bit.
> > 
> > Find the attached patch against xfce4-session(SVN r26613) as a
> > workaround.
> 
> Can you open a bug on bugzilla and post the patch there?  Otherwise I 
> fear it will get lost...
Yes, I wanted to do so but for some reason I didn't :D.
Now, I added the patch to the existing bug report:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2871

> > Maybe it's better to move xfce4-tips into the xfce-utils module instead
> > of xfce4-session? What do you think?
> 
> Not sure.  Since xfce4-session has xfce4-tips in its default session, 
> the idea is that xfce4-session sorta 'depends' on xfce4-tips.  I guess 
> it wouldn't hurt to have xfce4-session depend on xfce-utils, which it 
> (informally) already does.  Doesn't really matter to me, honestly.
Ok, it was just an idea. I agree that it is in some way closely
related to xfce4-session but on the other hand, IMO, it is a separate,
independent application. 


Regards,
Enrico

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