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Re: Using glib's g_file_monitor_file and g_file_monitor_directory


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Using glib's g_file_monitor_file and g_file_monitor_directory
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:49:03 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> Please don't.  Not every box where emacs is used runs x11, and glib
> should not be a forced dependency.

AFAIK glib does not require X11.  Are you confusing it with Gtk, maybe?

   % aptitude show libglib2.0-0
   [...]
   Dépend: libc6 (>= 2.9), libffi5 (>= 3.0.4), libpcre3 (>= 8.10),
           libselinux1 (>= 1.32), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.2)
   [...]
   Description : GLib library of C routines
    GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such
    as trees, hashes, lists, and strings.  It is a useful
    general-purpose C library used by projects such as GTK+, GIMP,
    and GNOME. 
    
    This package contains the shared libraries.  Site : http://www.gtk.org/


-- Stefan



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