gmail-notify strange dependency

[Matan Nassau]

Don't take it as an author's reply, but I think that Google uses Atom
or RSS to let you know how's your GMail inbox going. So you either
need to parse a (changing) http data, or read a stable RSS stream.

Matan

On 9/27/05, Joakim Nilsson <joakim at utropstecken.com> wrote:
> I don't really know if it is a bug, but I found it to be a bit strange.
>
> Package: gmail-notify
> [...]
> Depends: straw (>= 0.25.1), python (<< 2.5), python (>= 2.4)
>
> Why would a Gmail-checker depend on a RSS-reader?
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