Re: Makeing librsvg work (bizp2.dll missing)

[Hartmut Goebel <h goebel goebel-consult de>]

Hi Tor,

Tor Lillqvist schrieb:

> Sure. Why is that a problem? Users (and I mean *real* end-users, not
> "sophisticated" people who have used Linux) should not even need to be
> aware that there is something called "GTK+" and that some app in
> particular uses it. [...]
>
> I might well imagine that if various non-related GTK+-using apps
> shared a GTK+ installation and theme setting, users would be very
> confused why these, in their impression, totally unrelated
> applications, are all affected by some mysterious "GTK+ theme setting"
> thingie.

Okay, this convinced me.

Nevertheless let me answer to your other arguments

> And the waste of space argument is so last century.

Wast of space is somewhat outdated, you are right. But larger packages
need to be transmitted, and I heard rumours there are areas (somewhere
outside Europe) which do not have Gigabit to the household ;-)

> Yeah, but if there is no shared installation of just GTK+ as a
> separate entity, there obviously is no need to uninstall it separately
> either;)

Except for the developers package.

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