Robert Snyder said:
> On 3/6/06, Jason Boxman <jasonb@edseek.com> wrote:
>>
>> Richard Morgan said:
>> <snip>
>> > Yeah, things like this could cause you some dependency issues since
>> Slack
>> > dropped Gnome and Patrick is trying to drop as many Gnome libraries as
>> > possible
>> > to completely get away from it... hence the recent decision to drop
>> > Abiword:
>> >
>> > "OK, I think I have everything that used libreadline.so.4 recompiled
>> > with the exception of AbiWord, as the --disable-gnome option no
>> > longer seems to work with abiword-2.4.2 -- it still demands
>> > libgnomeprint and all of its dependencies. Anyone know a way around
>> > this one? If not, AbiWord will likely be removed soon. It's
>> > included in all of the GNOME distributions for Slackware anyway..."
>>
>> And this exposes the largest problem I have with a one-man-show. :)
>
>
> Patricks biggest gripe was the problem of having to go back and clean up all
> of buggy gnome code. if there is a army of programmers like at Debian it
> would not be such an issue. I always thought the biggest problem was
> patrick kicking the bucket as that would mean no more slackware.
Interestingly, the biggest complain I hear from KDE packagers for Debian is
how miserably monolothic each package is. So, while you can install the
'konqueror' package, know that a bunch of developer hours were chewed to rip
that application out of KDE's 'kdebase' and make it sane and FHS happy. The
GNOME stuff is, from what I've heard, far easier to package.
It could be Patrick just doesn't like GNOME. *shrug*
I'm glad GNOME is in Debian, even though I have no interest in using it
again, like, ever.
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