Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:16:40 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Albert Kinderman <albert.kinderman@csun.edu> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why do I need gnome for py-gtk? Message-ID: <3C94C167.BABEAFE2@FreeBSD.org> References: <3C87AEC0.93DC222B@csun.edu>
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Albert Kinderman wrote: > > Maybe this should go to ports, but I thought I would ask here. > > I am a user, nothing more. I want a light weight system and am > using ROX-Filer and ROX-session for my windows management. In > order to compile a simple ROX applet, I needed py-gtk. py-gtk has > 50 dependencies, about 30 of which were not on my system. > > On my Debian system, the python-gtk package requires only python, > libc6, libgdk-pixbuf2, libglib1.2, libgtk1.2, python-gdk-imlib, > and X. Admittedly, some of these require other packages (jpeg, > tiff, etc), but not an installation of core gnome components. > > Is there any particular reason that py-gtk needs most of gnome to > install and run? One of the features of gnome that I don't like > is what I see as excessive dependencies. > > In a sense, I don't really want an answer, but I think it is an > issue that developers should consider in developing ports. Corrected, thank you for the hint. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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