Hello, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, on Wed 01 Jun 2016 23:25:51 +0200, wrote: > On 26/04/16 02:07, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, on Mon 25 Apr 2016 17:48:02 +0200, wrote: > >> Do you think demoting libgail-common and libatk-adaptor to Recommends would > >> be fine at this stage, so that they are installed by default but can be > >> removed if desired (e.g. if/when there are no gtk2 apps installed)? > > > > That's a possibility. But we can also do like for qt4: since > > accessibility is now supposed to be enabled by default, we could > > make libgtk2.0-0 itself depend on libgail-common, i.e. the toolkit > > itself makes sure it has the tools to make itself accessible. That > > way, libgail-common will get installed whenever a gtk2 application is > > installed for some reason. > > I'd like that. However that creates a dependency loop as libgail-common > depends > on libgail18 which depends on libgtk2.0-0. > > Folding libgail into libgtk isn't an option as they don't necessarily keep the > same soname. > > Any ideas?
In the Qt4 case, we used a Recommends. Here libgtk2.0-0 would recommend libgail-common. Samuel
