Subject: RE: libglade is evil
From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (cuenca@celium.net)
Date: Fri Feb 09 2001 - 05:28:06 CST
Aaron wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:38:17PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > libglade adds two annoying dependencies to abiword. It makes abi's
> > libxml2 support useless. I oppose the use of libglade (and glade
> > itself, for that matter) in any non-optional AbiWord code.
>
> ok, this is IT!:
>
> bash-2.04# apt-get install libglade0-dev
> ...
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> gnome-libs-data libart-dev libesd0-dev libglade0 libglade0-dev
> libgnome-dev
> libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba-dev libgnorba27
> libxml-dev
>
>
> By using libglade, you are turning gnome into a build-dependency! You
> are making GNOME a requirement for AbiWord and destroying GTK-only
> support.
You're wrong. Please calm down.
Check the sources of libglade. You can build it without gnome support.
It just seems that the dude that build the dev package think that a non
gnome package of libglade was not useful.
Sorry, but that's not my fault.
-- Joaquin Cuenca Abela cuenca@celium.net
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