Gnome-vfs and gvfs

As I can read from wikipedia, gnome-vfs is deprecated and gvfs is a replacement for it. But libgnome package depends on both gnome-vfs and gvfs. Is it necessary?
P.S. Sorry for my English.

I read somewhere on the forum that libgnome still depends on both for legacy reasons and most likely the next release will remove the dependency on gnome-vfs.

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