FS#19065 - [uzbl-browser] Please remove the dependency on dmenu

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Christophe-Marie Duquesne (duquesnc) - Monday, 12 April 2010, 20:51 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 12 April 2010, 21:32 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Ionut Biru (wonder)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The package uzbl-browser depends on dmenu>=4.0. Though uzbl and dmenu are both good pieces of software, this dependency is unnecessary and uzbl-browser will work perfectly fine without dmenu. Furthermore, if the user does not want dmenu but for example AUR's dmenu-vertical instead, since the package dmenu-vertical does not provide 'dmenu=4.0' but 'dmenu', pacman considers the dependency as not satisfied. And thus it requires tweaking of dmenu-vertical's PKGBUILD (annoying when one knows this dependency was not originally needed).

This has been confirmed as a bug on irc/#uzbl.
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Monday, 12 April 2010, 21:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  removed versioned dependencies
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 12 April 2010, 21:10 GMT
the aur build should be fixed as i don't consider dmenu being unnecessary in uzbl-browser. i want that package to be a fully operation browser as the config is using it.

having a functionality that doesn't work is a bug.
Comment by Christophe-Marie Duquesne (duquesnc) - Monday, 12 April 2010, 21:18 GMT
Then at least please remove '>=4.0'. The scripts provided in the default distribution will work with any version of dmenu.

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