Matt Armstrong wrote:
> Jeremy Collins wrote:
> >
> > Enough is enough...
> >
> > We have a serious problem with Gnucash and its preventing people from
> > using and/or developing Gnucash. There are way to many package
> > requirements to get Gnucash to install properly. Something HAS to been
> > done about this. It is too hard to get Gnucash installed.
>
> I can imagine two solutions.
>
> One option is bundling all those packages with gnucash. This way, you
> get all the correct versions with gnucash. This is a bit much for big
> things like lesstif or gnome, but not such a big deal for the others.
> The advantage here is that if they have, say, an incompatible version of
> guile already installed, gnucash gets the correct version anyway.
Fairly ugly.
> Another option is to maintain working versions of all the required
> packages on gnucash.org -- both RPM and source.
*This* would be a good move.
It would be a good move to not have gnucash RPMs dependent on
"libguile 1.3," as that particular version is fairly obscure.
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