On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mike Edenfield <kut...@kutulu.org> wrote: > On 3/25/2010 11:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote: >> hi, >> >> when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and >> all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes >> stable, and is used in real linux application? > > F-Spot is written in C#. C# is a CIL-only language, and requires the > Mono runtime to execute. > > If you consider F-Spot a "real" Linux application, then clearly Mono is > used by "real" Linux applications. The author of F-Spot, at least, > considered it stable enough to use. > > If you don't consider Mono stable, you'll have to use something other > than F-Spot. Unfortunately I don't know of an application for Linux > that does everything that F-Spot does, except maybe Picasa from Google?
DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system).
