-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 DJ Lucas wrote: > > Well, I have to disagree. A recommendation should not be governed by an > editor's opinion, but by necessity. I'd wager that, based on the > previous discussion, there should be recommended dependencies on less > than 15 of the packages in the book, maybe less. One of the arguments > in the previous discussion was "major functionality," but I can quite > well argue that "major functionality" cannot possibly be determined > objectively. > > Allow me to explain by example. However unlikely, using the previous > example from this thread, gnome-mount provides facilities for > auto-mounting of removable media on hotplug events. One of the other > 'minor' functions it provides is the ability to eject a CD. I don't > plan to use Gnome Desktop, or hot-plugging at all, but I do like that > gnome-mount can eject my CDs in Xfce and it talks to D-Bus which can run > post-eject actions in an efficient manor. This is where my assumption was wrong. I didn't realize that gnome-mount would be used with anything else but a Gnome environment. If this is the case, then should it not be moved out of the gnome chapters and into a general utility section or something? This is one of the packages in the gnome section that is actual not hosted by the Gnome site.
> > I realize there is an eject program (which is cmmi), but to use eject, > I'd be dependent upon another program to do polling, or wait for it to > show in sysfs and then write my own program to do whatever action is > required when the CD is ejected. Do I really need to install the 35 (?) > other required deps for nautilus to make gnome-mount do what I need it > to do in Xfce? There are probably 100 or more examples in the book now > (A fairly good portion of them put there by me!). :-) > > Granted this would probably be the minority of users, but the > recommended dependency above is useless to me. Yes, for most users it > is probably a good recommendation, but it is still based on opinion of > the editor, This is what I was trying not to do, that is basing something on an opinion. What I was trying to do was to base it on a set of rules, be it that those rules where wrong. Wayne. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFLVtUhhfgHoRhX2wIRAjcHAKC7adoAB5Y6AsaqAQ/WUiJjYrM5ugCgghYl Nv5J6+y9vhl6jL6i7AKFIOQ= =HXPD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
