Re: Release? was Re: Stepping back as Zinf Debian maintainer

Steve Holmes <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:48:57PM +0000, Robert Hart wrote:
>> Ok. The patch, as it stands, adds a glib dependency into the id3lib
>> plugin. Is that ok? Glib is currently only required for the gtk parts of
>> zinf. Do these text-only people object to the use of glib?
>
> Sorry, but I would object merely on the principle that if I don't use
> GTK or X, why should there be X windows dependencies scattered about?
>
andy@ivanova:~% apt-cache show libglib2.0-0
Package: libglib2.0-0
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 732
Maintainer: Akira TAGOH <[email protected]>
Architecture: i386
Source: glib2.0
Version: 2.2.3-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1)
Recommends: libglib2.0-data
Filename: pool/main/g/glib2.0/libglib2.0-0_2.2.3-1_i386.deb
Size: 305252
MD5sum: f92496f3502a9aa030a60ac6a28146b6
Description: The GLib library of C routines
 GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such
 as trees, hashes, lists, and strings.  It is a useful general-purpose
 C library used by projects such as GTK+, GIMP, and GNOME.
 .
 This package contains the shared libraries.

See "Size:" "Depends:"and "Description:". GLib is not in any way X,
GUI or graphics related, apart that it is used in GNOME. For example,
I used it in a reliable multicast protocol implementation (implemented
as a C lib, plus a few basic commandline tools, so fairly low-level
stuff). If you ever programmed C using it, you'll sorely miss it if
you are restricted to POSIX/ANSI C.

[Rant about graphic dependencies snipped]

Andy
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