On 10/10/05, Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>
> > A while ago, I added the gtk2-extras package.  But frankly, I think it'=
s
> > useless; if we add a theme or application requiring a specific image
> > loader, we'll list it as a dependency.
>
> Ideally, that's how it should be.  The needed libraries should have bl3
> files where appropriate, and those bl3 files sbould be included by the
> dependent (directly, not via a second-level metapackage).

Well, yes, and that's how it is now.  The idea of this meta package was to
let users install everything related to gtk2, so that they'd get third-part=
y
themes installed by hand to work correctly.  But I guess that'd be consider=
ed
"bloat", and if you are installing themes, you probably have everything tha=
t's
needed.

--
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmmv/
The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/