glib dependancy in KDE3.x

[Neil Stevens]

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On Friday March 07, 2003 08:30, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:06:24AM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Friday March 07, 2003 06:58, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > >  And of course, GLib is pretty widely used, so it's not
> > >  unlikely the user will already have it.
> >
> > That doesn't mitigate that it's a new dependency, and...
>
> True.
>
> [snip]
>
> > aRts would be the first to use glib, and the use of aRts by knotify
> > and konqueror would assure that every KDE user was having to load glib
> > on KDE startup.
>
> I'm quite confused. I had hoped that the public api
> to the arts sounds server would not be linking to the
> glib library and that it would be used internally only?

That's what I first asked, and the answer was that glib would be linked to 
by the libraries that our apps link to, even if glib is hidden from the 
headers:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104694506003876


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