Hello Neil, On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Neil Jagdish Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Pascal, [...] >> 0.2.78: >> Depends on gir1.2 which is in Debian experimental. However, I can't >> install gir1.2 without removing gnome and cie. >> Ouch. > > Right, we had the same type of issue earlier in the cycle. The thing is > that the gir packages aren't actually a "dep", they are in the package > to build the gir bindings for BAMF only. > > You could easily modify the packaging to drop these deps and build bamf > with --disable-introspection passed to configure, which would stop the > building of these files. BAMF & Ginn would work fine without them.
Ah! Thanks for the information. I must admit I didn't try to understand bamf's packaging. >> I'd rather have full accuracy if possible w/o too much trouble. >> This may sound ignorant, but for GIO, can you point me to the relevant >> patch/package please? >> >> Thanks to both of you Neil and Jason, I'm sure I'll manage to work >> something out. > > I don't have it to hand and don't have the upstream bug number either, > sorry, but you can get it from Ubuntu's glib package (it adds an > extension point). If I understand correctly, this is 71_gio_launch_handler.patch ... > With that patch, Bamf will compile and run. We actually need to remove > the need for that patch altogether, but have run out of time before > feature freeze. You could build bamf by disabling the build of the > extension point if you don't want to patch glib, bamf will still run and > should still work pretty well. I'll see if building a patched glib creates a domino effect and go from there. Thanks again, you helped me a great deal with your insightful comments! -Pascal -- Homepage (http://organact.mine.nu) Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org) COMunité/LACIME: École de technologie supérieure (http://www.comunite.ca) Integrated Microsystems Laboratory: McGill (http://www.iml.ece.mcgill.ca) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
