Re: gEDA-user: 20050329 install problem

["Daniel Nilsson" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Dickens (marvindickens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 April 2005 21:37, Daniel Nilsson wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:27:15PM -0400, Marvin Dickens wrote:
> > > The first time I installed gEDA (Two years ago...?...) I had a couple of
> > > problems with dependencies. The majority were related to SuSE distro
> > > centric issues with required gEDA dependencies. So, I fell back on
> > > what I knew would work: Install all dependencies and Geda from source.
> > > I've been installing gEDA from source ever since. My complaints regarding
> > > gEDA dependencies are not related to dependency list as specified by
> > > gEDA, but to the one thing every distro is guilty of: Bastardizing
> > > libraries to fit market strategy de jour and/or political statements.  I
> > > say shame on the distro's (Commerical and non-commerical alike).
> >
> > Marvin,
> >
> > This may sounds ignorant, but I don't know what you are referring to
> > here. I used SuSE many years ago myself, but have settled on
> > Debian so maybe I have different experience they you do...
> >
> > How is market strategy related to bastardizing libraries ? I'm not
> > saying it's not related, I just don't understand how it's related...
>
> There are lots of examples. The one that most people can relate to
> is this what both RedHat and SuSE did with CDRecord.

The CDRecord debate is indeed a pretty ugly one, I don't know what RedHat and
SuSE did but as far as I can tell Debian decided to go with the version that
Linus Torvalds "fixed" himself. This after the long debate about kernel APIs
between Linus and Jörg Schilling.

But that's all related to what happened in the Linux kernel API and with
ide-scsi going to the 2.6 Linux kernel, I thought you were talking about
libraries such as glib and gtk+ that gEDA depends upon. I have never heard of
a distribution that would alter these libraries beyond bugfixes to the point
where you were better off compiling your own versions.

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Daniel Nilsson