On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:59:00 -0700 Andrei Thorp wrote:

Was it a warning or an error? If it was just a warning and thunar did the right thing regardless, it sounds like it's a missing optdepends as you say. If it actually stopped working or was hindered in some way, it's probably a missing depend.

Anyway, you're probably right. Libnotify is frequently an optional dependency that adds a nice abstraction layer to notifications. One thing that I found nifty is that my window manager/ DE (Awesome WM) actually catches libnotify events and displays its own pop-ups.

Cheers,

-AT

Well, it didn't unmount the thumbdrive and gave me the popup that said that libnotify was missing so I'd say missing depend. But otherwise thunar worked, and we have a number of packages where part of the functionality is broken without the optdepends, sometimes worse than a popup with an error message (segfault). So I merely guess that it's a runtime dependency in this case and therefor optdepend. Regards, Philipp

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:13:01 -0400 Daenyth Blank wrote:

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 04:20, wrote:

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Well, it didn't unmount the thumbdrive and gave me the popup that said that libnotify was missing so I'd say missing depend. But otherwise thunar worked, and we have a number of packages where part of the functionality is broken without the optdepends, sometimes worse than a popup with an error message (segfault). So I merely guess that it's a runtime dependency in this case and therefor optdepend.

Regards, Philipp

Sounds like it should maybe be a depend on thunar-volman, but not thunar itself. To my knowledge, the base program doesn't use it.

Hmm, but thunar-volman is not installed on my system.. Regards, Philipp

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:19:58 -0400 Daenyth Blank wrote:

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 08:49, wrote:

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Hmm, but thunar-volman is not installed on my system..

Regards, Philipp

Hmmm... I guess I don't know the software as well as I thought I did. I thought that addon was what managed removable devices

It's certainly not necessary to mount and unmount devices, from what I gathered it's more for automating tasks when drives get inserted and stuff like that. I removed libnotify to get the exact error: Failed to unmount "4G Removable Volume". /usr/lib/xfce4/exo-mount-notify-0.3: error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory An application is preventing the volume "4G Removable Volume" from being unmounted. My guess is that this dependency was recently introduced since it worked before without libnotify. Regards, Philipp