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Re: guile-gtk rpm?


Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> 
> > Anyway, I'm planning to merge guile-gtk with gnome-guile completely.
> > The resulting package would work with and without GNOME, of course.
> > Would that help?  (I'm not sure how to name the merged package.
> > gnome-guile seems to be wrong because it implies a dependency on the
> > base gnome libs.)
> 
> I know to little about this to know whether this is a relevant
> question, but
> 
> Let's assume that we have a system S with two users U1 and U2.
> 
> Gnome libs are available on S.
> 
> U1 is using gnome.
> U2 isn't using gnome at all.  (There's no trace of gnome in his
> environment.)
> 
> U1 and U2 both want to compile and use programs with your new package.
> 
> Will this work?

Yes.  There will still be the (gtk ...) modules as well as the (gnome
...)  modules.  In any case, you don't need to be running `Gnome the
desktop' to be able to use `Gnome the libraries'.