[pulseaudio-discuss] Module dependencies

[Arun Raghavan]

On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 21:08 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Arun Raghavan at 23/07/12 05:16 did gyre and gimble:
> > Hello
> > Folks using the Rygel module are currently facing the problem of having
> > to remember to manually add the http module to the auto-loaded list. As
> > I see it, there are two ways of fixing this:
> >         
> > 1. Just try to load the http protocol module in the Rygel module (it'll
> > fail if it's already loaded)
> >         
> > 2. Add a mechanism to specify such dependencies in modules.
> >         
> > The latter is more generic, obviously, but I think this would be
> > overkill. Does anyone know of cases where such a mechanism would be
> > required? If not, we should just go with (1) soon.
> 
> 3. Make paprefs do it when it adds the rygel module...
> 
> I'll volunteer to do this if this is the best solution, but really I'd
> rather avoid doing any major paprefs changes!
> 
> So maybe option 1 would be good for v3.0. If approved I will do this.

++ on going with option 1.

-- Arun