Re: Fwd: Re: Pango portability (or rather the lack of it)

From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra (rms@1407.org)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 19:49:27 EDT

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    I've also said that gtk2 depends on pango.

    So, if your favorite platform has gtk2... then...

    Hugs, rms

    On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 23:09, Blue Lizard wrote:
    > Emm...see hub's correction. According to debian, pango depends on
    > glib2, not even gtk.
    >
    > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 20:29, Robert G. Werner wrote:
    > > I think that the feeling about Solaris is that all the Gnome libs are
    > > being ported to Solaris and in fact the rumor is that Gnome will be
    > > part of the default install for Solaris 9 (or is it 10 now?).
    > >
    > > Personally, I hated CDE and would love to see it replaced with
    > > something prettier and more configurable/customizable (i.e.
    > > Gnome/KDE). As a system administrator, I love the idea of having
    > > Gnome/GTK+ come pre-installed in Solaris because so much interesting
    > > software is coming to depend on these toolkits.
    > >
    > > Anyway, I don't think Solaris would be the OS with lack of Gnome
    > > problems. More likely in that case is soemthing like SCO or DEC/Open
    > > Unix, or so I would guess not being a user of either ;-).
    > > --
    > > Robert G. Werner
    > > rwerner@mail.microbsys.com
    > > 2001/9/11
    > >
    > > I'm a Hollywood writer; so I put on a sports jacket and take off my brain.
    > >
    > > On 25 Apr 2002, Blue Lizard wrote:
    > >
    > > [snip]
    > > > Are there not solaris users without gnome/pango?
    > > > I always liked cde, and few administrators (or, few that I know) are
    > > > gonna wanna install pango stuff for the sake of one word processor.
    > > >
    > > > (naturally, I intend to offer arguments for and against both sides)
    > > >
    > > > -MG
    > > >

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