On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:05:02PM +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote: >> The dasher README suggests that the Gnome depencies are optional (although >> recommended, but only expat and gtk2+ are strictly required). Would it be >> possible to make the gnome dependencies optional and build a package with >> minimal dependencies? I tried ./configure --without-gnome but it still >> insisted on the presence of gnome and bonobo libraries. > > --disable-a11y > > is the option you want as the accessibility toolkit depends on orbit and > bonobo. This is changing with a move to dbus... (Avoiding intltoolize > and its perl dependencies is more interesting...) AFAIR, intltool is only a build dependency, so it's a non-issue. And, please, please, if you want to make gnome dependencies optional, create a new package, say dasher-gtk, which builds dasher without gnome support. Don't add a build option to dasher to disable these dependencies. -- Julio Merino