gEDA-dev: Gschem and Cairo graphics library

[Russell Shaw]

John Griessen wrote:
 > Russell Shaw wrote:
 >  click Ok to install them.
 >
 >> All the right information is there in existing command-line tools, and
 >> only a gui frontend is needed.
 >
> No,
> 
> It's not.  I just hit this lack of complete dependency information the 
> other week with debian.  All my problems updating to the latest pcb cvs 
> were due to incomplete or overlapping dependency info in seemingly 
> unrelated debian packages.  Some of the parts of systems like X11 or 
> Xorg were undocumented snags probably since they were self tested, but 
> not against eachother since of different vintages.

The testing and unstable part of debian can have problems like that for
new packages such Xorg.

The point is that all the infrastructure is there for complete dependency
resolution and it is only a matter of eliminating packaging bugs.

Some packages have bugs for a long time if no one is maintaining them.

> Using the static built Klik package may be the best way to promote good 
> FOSS tools with recent libraries.  Sure, it has bloat because of the 
> static build. The users who want that fast install don't care.

It's a typical attitude of windoze users that it's all about "me me me".
Regardless of whether their pc is part of a botnet spamming the internet,
they're still happy.

Bloated installs are only for CDs, not for hosting on a site that has to
host thousands of other packages too.

If a site gets to the point of being too slow and full, if all the bloated
packages were separated into their frequently and infrequently downloaded
parts, then the network bandwidth would become useable again.