Dependency hell redux

[Jonathan Corbet]

[gnucash CD]

> Too bad http://lwn.net/2001/0614/bigpage.php3 didn't mention this
> (although perhaps they're not into covering stuff before
> it's released).

No, that was just an omission on my part - I had seen that go by, but it
got paged out of my mind as deadline approached.  I should have mentioned
it.  Maybe I'll try to slip in a quick sentence.

> lwn mentions that GnuCash depends on 60 (!) other libraries.
> Is that figure correct?  It seems pretty high.

ldd /usr/bin/gnucash | wc -l

That's fewer than 60 packages, of course, but the number of libraries is
correct. 

jon

Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net