Comment 19 for bug 1015564

Ok, this makes sense, I honestly remember MPRIS was implemented on top
on DBus but I was wrong. Sorry for the mistake :)

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Scott Ringwelski
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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.
>
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> Unity and Sound Menu support should be checked at runtime
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