Comment 18 for bug 1015564
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| Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe) wrote Re: Unity and Sound Menu support should be checked at runtime | #18 |
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At this point, our discussion is not relevant to the original bug report.
We are going to keep libunity, but only require it for unity launcher api stuff. We are going to keep it as an optional dependency. This will not satisfy the checking for libunity at runtime, but that is ok, there isn't much we can do there.
What my plan above fixes is it allows distros without libunity package to still use MPRIS by not depending on libunity for MPRIS and instead using the dbus api directly.
So, in the end - yes libunity is still an optional dependency. But, not having that dependency only means that there is no launcher entry api (quicklists, progress).
But, MPRIS will not depend on libunity which means all other distros without libunity still get MPRIS.