Excuse me butting in; I'm just another longtime GQView user. In fact on Lenny I'm using Geeqie, but on Squeeze I had to switch back to avoid the extra dependencies.
Michal Čihař wrote: > GSR <[email protected]> napsal(a): >> With the migration from gqview to geeqie, lots of dependencies are >> pulled: map libs, gconf, clutter... Please provide some version that >> replaces gqview (a simple viewer that uses gtk, and not more) and make >> the rest be optional. > > What you think should stay in "simple viewer"? EXIF support? Color > management? Lirc support? GPS support? All these are compile time > optional external dependencies, which do bring additional libraries. It seems to me that none of these libraries are "additional" in the relevant sense: if I'm already using GQView/Geeqie on Lenny, all the dependencies needed for its functionality have already been satisfied. Even if I wasn't using GQView previously, installing it onto a Stable system that already has apps like Audacious or MPlayer or Iceweasel is unlikely to involve any _new_ library dependencies at all. It's only installing the Squeeze version of Geeqie that pulls in the long list of new, additional dependencies - gconf2, gnome-keyring, liborbit2, libsoup-gnome2.4-1... anybody willing to follow dependency chains like that one might as well use the standard GNOME-specific image viewer: "sudo aptitude install eog" is a smaller download! GQView's selling point was always that it was a desktop-neutral "simple image viewer". If GQView is being retired, and Geeqie's not aiming for the same role, it would almost make more sense for the transition package to depend on one of the few remaining GTK+ graphics-directory browsers... maybe GPicView? -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
