[Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

[Daniel Drake]

On 18 June 2010 10:59, Sascha Silbe <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
>> My view: don't let it hold back. Make the change, hack jhbuild, and
>> put pressure on them to push the package updates.
> If somebody else volunteers to maintain a sugar-jhbuild that replaces major libraries shipped by the distro: go ahead!
> It will get you into dependency hell and I have neither the time nor any inclination to re-enter it after working hard to get _rid_ of most non-Sugar packages in sugar-jhbuild.
> As mentioned on IRC, the reason it works well for Gnome is because they replace _all_ the libraries. Apart from raising the bar to using sugar-jhbuild (think disk space, time to build) it requires a lot of effort to keep all packages current.

Fair points, but these are all Debian's problems, in my opinion. It
falls into the "We're innovating, can you keep up?" camp.

Daniel