[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Shave off unnecessary dependencies from jhbuild

[Sascha Silbe]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 06:19:09PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:

> But if I remove this, wouldn't jhbuild try to build xulrunner from 
> source?
No, since the only package depending on xulrunner (hulahop) is installed 
from a distro package.

> Or am I still misunderstanding how jhbuild thinks?
Yep. :)

[Hulahop]
> Fedora has 0.7.1. Lucid does not seem to have it at all. Was the 
> package
> dropped or what?
Oh, you're right. I got confused by the many different Ubuntu releases; 
hulahop is only included up to Karmic. They have dropped hulahop from 
Lucid because it requires xulrunner and python-xpcom.
That reminds me I should request Sugar to be removed from Lucid. With 
almost no activities packages and no Browse to download them from 
activities.sugarlabs.org, it's pretty much useless to ordinary users.


>> As we keep dogtail, we also need to keep python-pyatspi.
> Isn't there a way to prevent jhbuild from requesting this dependency
> unconditionally?
Unfortunately there isn't. The "use distro packages" part is a custom 
Sugar Labs hack; making it conditional on what packages are going to be 
built would be quite some effort to implement. I'm not even sure I'd 
merge a patch that does this as we'd divert further from upstream 
JHBuild.


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CU Sascha

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