On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:05 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2007, mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: 
> [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure':
> > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 04:47 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > On Friday 23 February 2007 16:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > > On Friday 23 February 2007, mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re:
> > > >
> > > > [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure':
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > but none of the masking or keywords work. It seems that
> > > > > gnucash is dead. 
> > > > > I wonder why it is in portage at all?
> > >
> > > Nope. app-office/gnucash is not dead:
> > >
> > > I had to install the following packages to get gnucash working:
> >
> > glib is 2.5 installed so I don't know why gnucash needs a broken 1.2?
> 
> Because those two versions are anywhere near source or binary compatible.  
> Glib changed significantly between 1.x and 2.x, so that programs written 
> against 1.x have to be non-trivially ported to 2.x.
> 
> I'm also not sure if there is any way to support 1.x and 2.x of glib from 
> the same codebase.  If not, that would make migration doubly difficult.
> 
> > I 
> > tried every combination of keywords and masks and use flags so far in
> > this thread on 2 different computers and I get errors that the packages
> > can't be installed, and I keep running into the same bug as the top of
> > this thread. Am I missing something? 
> 
> Yes.  Clearly, you are incapable of following our directions without a bit 
> more guidance or doing any independent research on the problem.  I can 
> provide that guidance for the low price of 28.50 USD an hour, with a 
> minimum charge of 4 hours; you'll have gnucash installed at the end or no 
> charge at all.  To get started, I'll need your payment information and the 
> contents of /etc/portage/package.* and /etc/make.conf and the output 
> of 'emerge --info', 'ls /etc/portage', 'ls -d /etc/make.profile'; I 
> believe the list would prefer you send this information with private 
> email.
> 
> For a more expensive, but very reasonable 42.75 USD an hour, you can just 
> give me root access to your Gentoo box(es) and I'll fix them all.  While 
> you do take a bit of a risk (I can do anything with root access, right?), 
> since my access is part of a business arragement my liability for damage I 
> cause, especially intentionally, just went up 10x (or more), at least in 
> my jurisdiction.
> 
> > If this is a but, won't it be 
> > fixed in some new version of portage?
> 
> There *a* bug covered at the top of the thread.  It is (1) not a bug with 
> portage, but rather a single package and (2) not likely to get fix since 
> that version of the package depends on (broken) glib 1.x.
> 

Thanks Boyd, for your generous offer! I will take a bit more time and
read through the gentoo docs again. If I run out of time, I will take
you up on that!

Thanks again
rick

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