Re: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-06 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:36:12 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > Welcome to the glory of rapid application development and > "modern" programming! :-) Somebody could write a letter to the ACM: "Dynamic Linking Considered Harmful" ... or sth in that vicinity -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 1 signature.

Re: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:03:02 -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Gutenprint support is an OPTION in gimp -- perhaps turning that off relieves you of the dependency? Or maybe it's an option to gnomevfs... or something related to Gtk 2 in general... It's not guten

Re: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:03:02 -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Gutenprint support is an OPTION in gimp -- perhaps turning that off > relieves you of the dependency? Or maybe it's an option to gnomevfs... or something related to Gtk 2 in general... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Warren Block on Wednesday, 05 January 2011: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chad Perrin wrote: > > >Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require > >libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat > >absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something. > > package = pre-bu

Re: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chad Perrin wrote: Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something. package = pre-built, off-the-rack, one-size-fits-all. I don't know where the de

RE: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Gary Gatten
There's prolly a 10 line function the developer didn't want to write. I've seen some case where it takes more code to link to other packages than just write what's needed. Drives me crazy to have to install apps that have "nothing" to do with the app I really need... -Original Message-

Re: the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:19:39 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require > libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat > absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something. Welcome to the glory of rapid application development and "mod