[systemd-devel] [PATCH] buildsys: allow building without libnotify

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:

>> libnotify 0.7 does not require gtk at all.
>
> Hmm, whatever it is, there is an incompatible change, and the old an
> the new version can not be installed in parallel, isn't it?
>
> And all others besides Fedora are stuck with the old version which
> does not work with the code in systemd, right?
>

Yes.
There's an area of diminishing returns when making things parallel
installable. You don't want teeny, unstable libraries to grow parallel
versions, really. In this case,
we decided for one-time porting pain.
Of course, distributions may still decide the other way, and introduce
a libnotify06 package...