[GNC] Cannot change preferences

Frank H. Ellenberger frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 12:31:41 EDT 2018


Hi all,

AFAIK dbus-X11 is no direct dependency of GnuCash:
GnuCash requires GSettings,
only on Linux that requires dconf
and that again requires the dbus.

Regards
Frank

Am 22.08.2018 um 17:38 schrieb Colin Law:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 16:19, Ken Heard <kenslists at teksavvy.com> wrote:
>>
>> The version of gnucash I have, 1:2.6.15-1, was installed from the Debian
>> Stretch repository. Just now I looked at the entry for this package on
>> apt-cache and discovered that dbus-X11 is recommended for
>> gnucash-1:2.6.15-1; whereas it has to be mandatory.  This is a bug which
>> I will report to Debian.
> 
> Oh, you are right, Ubuntu is the same for 2.6.19, it is only a
> recommends.  I had not noticed that.  I will report a bug there.
> Post a link to yours and I will set it as the upstream bug for mine.
> 
>> ...
>> Another question is whether the dconf family of packages should also be
>> mandatory for gnucash.
> 
> I don't *think* that is an issue, I ran
> sudo apt remove --dry-run dconf-gsettings-backend
> to see what would happen and it wanted to take out half my system.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Colin
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