On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:27:46AM +0100, Andreas Happe wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:18:52AM +0000, Tom Payne wrote: > >I'm sure people will counter with "dependencies are bad". > > aehm, apt-cache show libgtk2.0-0 offers me following: (snip lots and lots of dependencies)
Yes, gtk depends on a lot, but as users of gtk we don't have to worry about them. All WE need is gtk, and let the package maintainers handle the rest of the work. > If i remeber things right ion is also used on handheld computers where > size does matter. There are versions of gtk designed for handheld computers that presumably don't have all these dependencies (e.g. using the framebuffer device instead of X). If the handheld version does have all these deps then presumably they're already installed on the device so that all the other gtk apps can use them. As users of gtk, if there is a single other app using gtk then the marginal cost is zero. > But there is nothing against using standard - libraries the other > mentioned cases (like linked lists), but i must confess that, these > thinks don't stop me from coding ion patches. Fair enough. Regards, Tom
