[grisbi-devel] Goffice major dependency and linking error

[Jean-Luc Duflot]

Le 15/01/2013 19:16, Shapeshifter910 a écrit :
> 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.
>

Hi,

I agree completely with Shapeshifter910 about the dependancy with DE, 
and moreover we have seen how some DE evoluated into some «engineer stuff».

Jean-Luc