gnucash's dependencies criticized

Phillip J Shelton shelton11@dingoblue.net.au
Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:43:00 +1000


On my count that is some 53 library names there.  I guess the "problem" is that it was not noticed
while every one had recent copies of gnome 1.2 but as gnome 1.4 is so new people have not updated
enough different packages to hide the large dependencies.  And are complaining  because ths
package requires "new" copies of so much.


"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:25:26AM +1000, Phillip J Shelton wrote:
> > Um, just as an aside, how many libraries does the 1.4.x series depend upon?
>
>     Lots.
>
> [msoulier@tigger msoulier]$ apt-cache showpkg gnucash
> Package: gnucash
> Versions:
> 1.4.12-1(/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> 1.4.10-3(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
>
> Reverse Depends:
> Dependencies:
> 1.4.12-1 - gdk-imlib1 (2 1.9.10-3) libart2 (2 1.2.13-6) libaudiofile0 (0
> (null)) libc6 (2 2.2.3-1) libdb3 (2 3.2.9-1) libesd0 (18 0.2.20) libesd-alsa0
> (2 0.2.20) libglib1.2 (2 1.2.0) libgnome32 (2 1.2.13-6) libgnomesupport0 (2
> 1.2.13-6) libgnomeui32 (2 1.2.13-6) libgtk1.2 (2 1.2.10-1) libgtkxmhtml1 (2
> 1.2.13-6) libguile9 (2 1:1.4-11) libjpeg62 (0 (null)) libpng2 (2 1.0.10)
> libxml1 (0 (null)) xlibs (4 4.0.3) zlib1g (2 1:1.1.3) libwww-perl (0 (null))
> slib (0 (null)) scm (0 (null)) guile1.4 (0 (null)) guile1.4-slib (0 (null))
> perl (0 (null)) eperl (0 (null)) libgwrapguile0 (2 0.9.1) gnuplot (0 (null))
> 1.4.10-3 - gdk-imlib1 (2 1.9.8.1-2) libart2 (2 1.2.13-2) libaudiofile0 (0
> (null)) libc6 (2 2.2.2-2) libdb2 (0 (null)) libesd0 (18 0.2.20) libesd-alsa0
> (2 0.2.20) libglib1.2 (2 1.2.0) libgnome32 (2 1.2.13-2) libgnomesupport0 (2
> 1.2.13-2) libgnomeui32 (2 1.2.13-2) libgtk1.2 (2 1.2.9-2) libgtkxmhtml1 (2
> 1.2.13-2) libguile9 (2 1:1.4-10) libjpeg62 (0 (null)) libpng2 (0 (null)) xlibs
> (2 4.0.1-11) zlib1g (2 1:1.1.3) libwww-perl (0 (null)) slib (0 (null)) scm (0
> (null)) guile1.4 (0 (null)) guile1.4-slib (0 (null)) perl (0 (null)) eperl (0
> (null)) libgwrapguile0
> (2 0.9.1) gnuplot (0 (null))
> Provides:
> 1.4.12-1 -
> 1.4.10-3 -
> Reverse Provides:
>
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