[colord] RFQ: Adding a GTK+ dep to libcolord

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 3 May 2012 10:49, Alexandre Prokoudine
> <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there absolutely no way you could make this a dedicated project
>> like e.g. what GEGL folks do with gegl-{gtk|qt|clutter}?
>
> I really don't want to make a separate project (waaaay more
> maintenance overhead) but adding another .pc file and shipping a
> subpackage for distros would be much simpler. Is it a political or
> technical reason you think we should avoid the dep?

Different distos have different packaging policies, and users tend to
produce a lot of noise about dependencies. If the feature can be built
into a separate RPM/DEB package, then, I think, it's quite all right
to ship this inside colord.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org