[grisbi-devel] Goffice major dependency and linking error

[Shapeshifter910]

Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Le lundi 14 janvier 2013 à 09:14 -0800, Shapeshifter910 a écrit :
>> Same here.
>> I was just about to compile 1.1.1 in my Slackware Linux when the
>> dependency poped up.
>> Too bad. I had to stop.
>> I will not use software that has Gnome dependencies.
>> Grisbi is now off my list of software to use.
>
> The goffice dependency only pulls in libgsf. All the other libraries
> both libgsf and goffice use are already dependencies of gtk+ (gobject,
> cairo, etc) and it does not pull any gnome-esque dependencies.
>
> Although I am not involved in the goffice parts of grisbi, it looks like
> it provides reasonably useful graphing/plotting features.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rémi
>
Ok, I'll give it another try.
Slackware does include full Gtk library set so if libgsf really only 
needs basic Gtk dependencies then I'm ok with that.
But I do hope Grisbi will not get further "Gnomified" as that would 
create a major problem for many Linux users who want to stay DE independent.