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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Move gtkglext from gnome to gtk.


From: Danny Milosavljevic
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Move gtkglext from gnome to gtk.
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 22:40:00 +0200

> Okay. Do the games and engineering modules still need to import the
> gnome module if we make this move?

Yes. 

The reasons that they still need gnome.scm are:

- engineering.scm references desktop-file-utils and shared-mime-info which are 
freedesktop things (i.e. common to all desktop environments) but are inside 
gnome.scm .

- games.scm references librsvg which is inside gnome.scm for some reason.

But I wanted to avoid the dependency in education.scm for celestia. 

Right now, gnome.scm includes gtk.scm and gtk.scm includes gnome.scm because of 
the above, among other things.

Disentangling all that seems to be a lot of work for little gain - however, I 
don't understand why there's gtk.scm and gnome.scm in the first place if we 
don't distinguish between them. It makes sense to distinguish since lxde, xfce, 
gnome etcetc all use gtk and freedesktop stuff.



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