Re: about including gpaint

[jacob helixcode com (Jacob "Ulysses" Berkman)]

Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com> writes:

> > > 	I don't agree with you. My graphic needs are 99% covered by a gpaint
> > > kind application. I don't have the time for learning how to use a
> > > powerful tool like gimp and I don't want to do so.
> > > 
> > > 	You can think I'm not a common user, maybe you'll be right, but if the
> > > tool is done I think is good idea  including it.
> > 
> > Maybe my feelings are political, but I have a hard time justifying adding
> > an app that uses the forked GtkCanvas and doesn't depend on any GNOME
> > libraries to the official GNOME apps package. I would hate to see us
> > endorsing forking core GNOME libraries.
> 
> Absolutely.  This the Gnome 1.4 extra app release.  With a few
> exceptions (like the gimp which is just a no-brainer for inclusion),
> all the apps should be Gnome specific, not just GTK+ apps.

The GIMP does depend on gnome-libs, although weakly:

[root woolly-mammoth jacob]# rpm -e gnome-libs 2>&1 | grep gimp
	libgtkxmhtml.so.1 is needed by gimp-1.1.26-0_helix_1

Jacob
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