On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Fernando de Oliveira <fam...@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > Em 31-07-2013 19:16, Ken Moffat escreveu: >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 01:41:55PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> Armin K. wrote: >>>> >>>> I'd rather archive Gnucash then keep all the old libraries. Your call. >>> >>> I'm leaning that way too. We can put it back when the package gets >>> caught up. Ken? >>> >>> -- Bruce >>> >> You'll upset Fernando. If it wasn't for him, I think we would have >> dropped it more than a year ago. I've never worked out how to use it >> (double-entry bookkeeping isn't something I understand). >> >> ĸen >> > > Thank you very much, Ken. > > Yes, it is essential for me. > > However, IIRC, gnucash-2.8 will only be released next year, hopefully > dropping libgnomeui dependency. > > Also, the instructions in the book do not work perfectly, some features > are not available, although only a few that I use is not there. It is > related to the need for guile 1.8, Armin's patch partially corrects for > guile 2. In Arch, > > Furthermore, all those old gnome just for this, do not seem fair to the > book and editors. > > Things have changed very much since I was arguing for keeping in the > book. And gnucash did not. > > Thus, I cannot argue with that, it is not reasonable, any more, > > I still will use it, though, but I think now I am more capable of > finding out how to do almost without help. This was what worried me, not > being possible to ask help for it here. And perhaps even out of the > book, probably I will get help here with it, if necessary. > > Would like to ask, if possible, a link to the archived gnome and > gnucash, after removed from the book. > > Please, in the future, do not be upset if I try to convince some editor > to bring it back, in case the dependencies become reasonable. > > Finally, want to thank Armin for the patch and support, till now for > this and Ken, who in many occasions supported it too. > > -- > []s, > Fernando > --
I wanted to start using it myself, but honestly it has been a couple years now since the last time I had it installed. (and with my new systemd build, will probably be another 2 years before I attempt it again) but even so, I am not sure if gnomeui would be worth the tradeoff or not. I keep my system relatively minimal, and that brings in a bunch of fun dependencies -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
