id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
7591	Stop recommending gobject-introspection	ken@…	blfs-book@…	"At various places we mention gobject-introspection as 'Recommended (required if building gnome)' because people tried to build gnome without installing it.

But we now have much less of gnome, and for most people this package is a waste of space. I normally build gucharmap, librsvg, pygobject2, and evince.  The first three work fine using 
{{{
--disable-introspection
}}}
while for evince it can be enabled, or not, with
{{{
--enable-introspection
}}}

It also seems to be mentioned for webkitgtk24 built against gtk3 which can be used by midori, so perhaps describing that as gnome is inadequate.

"	enhancement	closed	normal	7.10	BOOK	SVN	medium	invalid