Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Fri, Jan 21, 2005: > I don't really think it's acceptable to move half of gnome into contrib. > Fortunately, if the package dependencies of libhowl0 are accurate, this > shouldn't be required; mdnsresponder isn't a dependency of libhowl0, only a > recommends: which could in theory be weakened to a suggests:.
Err of course GNOME would have to rebuild gnomevfs and packages built with the howl enabled gnomevfs. I never meant to move GNOME in contrib! > You indicated on IRC that the library functionality isn't very useful > without the mdnsresponder package. I think it isn't very useful to a lot of > users even *with* the mdnsresponder package, so I don't think we'd be lying > to ourselves by weakening this to a suggests:. I think howl is great and would really do some good to usability in some programs. But sure, we lived without it in the past. Bye, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
