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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: GeoClue dependencies
From:       Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date:       2011-04-28 6:23:18
Message-ID: 201104280823.23526.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at
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On Thursday, 2011-04-28, John Layt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's been a short discussion on the GeoClue mailing list related to
> resolving the issues we have around their dependencies on gconf and
> gsettings
> 
> and the latest response has been:
> > The GConf dependency is already gone. And I wouldn't take a patch to
> > remove the GSettings dependency. There's Qt bindings to access
> > GSettings, and GSettings lives in GIO, which is also where the dbus-glib
> > replacement (GDBus) lives. I don't think that trying to replace a
> > library that's already in the dependencies due to the way packages are
> > built is buying us anything but too moving parts.
> 
> Now, I don't really know about GSettings, but I'm guessing this isn't an
> acceptable things for us?

Can you elaborate on how this dependency affects KDE? Isn't GeoClue offering 
its service through D-Bus interfaces?

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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