Re: [PATCH] libnotify: Remove obsolete dependency on dbus-glib

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 02:09:02PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> On 6/25/19 1:26 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Upstream stopped using it in 2010.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> > ---
> >   meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.8.bb | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.8.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.8.bb
> > index 82c137ca33..1c9084d919 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.8.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/libnotify/libnotify_0.7.8.bb
> > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ SECTION = "libs"
> >   LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
> >   LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
> > -DEPENDS = "dbus gtk+3 dbus-glib"
> > +DEPENDS = "dbus gtk+3 glib-2.0"
> >   inherit gnomebase gtk-doc distro_features_check gobject-introspection
> >   # depends on gtk+3
> > 
> 
> Nice.
> 
> Are you doing a manual inspection and analysis or
> something more automated that you can share as a script/workflow?

Manual.

I was curious what it would take to remove dbus-glib from oe-core.
This doesn't seem to be easy right now, but these were some trivial 
cases where all that was needed was to remove the dependency.

cu
Adrian

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