[csw-maintainers] Detecting the dependency on CSWdbus (was: Re: evince-2.24.2 in experimental)

Roger Håkansson roger.hakansson at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 21:55:23 CET 2010


Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
> One idea would be to assume that whatever needs CSWlibdbus also needs
> CSWdbus.  A version of that is what I did with the CSWpython-rt
> package - just get rid of it, because it's unhelpful anyway.  There's
> an easy way to falsify this theory: find an example of a package that
> needs libdbus but doesn't need a running daemon.

imagemagick depends on librsvg, which depends on gnomevfs2, which 
depends on libdbus and dbus (currently, however thre are no actual 
dependency other than). But imagemagick can use librsvg for reading and 
creating SVG files without having dbus running.


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