Hi, On Sat, Dec 08, 2007, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > I was looking for a converter SVG to PNG, and I found that > librsvg2-bin is pretty good at this job. However, I was rather upset > when installing it pulled in 30MB of gnome dependencies... I didn't > look in the code, but I would be very surprised if the converter > depended on gnome's printing libraries.
rsvg-view permits printing; this is currently implemented with libgnomeprintui. rsvg-convert doesn't depend on libgnomeprintui, you don't need to check the code, simply running objdump -x | grep NEEDED will tell you. > The solution to that would be to package them separately. What do > you think about that ? After all, the converter could be used > on a X free server. It would then pull in even much more useless > dependencies, such as the full X11 librairies. I understand your concern about the dependency tree, but I still wouldn't want these binaries to be split, it would be a bit overkill. However, libgnomeprint is being phased out upstream in favor of Gtk+ printing support. You're welcome to work on moving to Gtk+ for printing, but I suggest you work with upstream on this subject. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier
