WARNINGS!

[Maurice Murphy]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks.  My concern was that others might remove Glade2 without 
realizing that many of their apps. would also be removed at the same 
time.  Maybe some sort of warning might be appropriate to save others 
from the same fate as me, the proverbial dummy!

On the question of dependencies, Glade2 worked very nicely including the 
build function.  But when it came time to do an autogen.sh, many 
dependencies were not found.  I tried very hard for a couple of days to 
install these, but whatever I did, did not satisfy autogen.sh, 
particularly libgnomeui-2.0, which, in turn, needed many other 
dependencies to relieve the problem.  Hence, I abandoned Glade2.  A pity 
really because it seemed to be a pretty good interface builder.  Thanks 
again for your response.  Maurice

Andrew Hunter wrote:
> On Thursday 07 June 2007 07:56:22 Maurice Murphy wrote:
>   
>> During my recent escapades with Glade and Qt3, I ran into some
>> disturbing outcomes that perhaps deserve some preventive action.
>>
>> When I attempted to remove Glade2 in anticipation of installing Glade3,
>> Synaptic cleverly attempted to remove every app. that uses Glade2.
>> Fortunately, I was watching the process.  Synaptic removed Alacarte,
>> Ekiga and Evolution before I stopped the whole process by forceably
>> shutting down my box.
>>
>> I had a similar experience when removing Qt3 in anticipation of
>> installing Qt4.  The only app., however, that appeared to have been
>> removed in this case was Skype.
>>
>> Should I file a bug report?
>>     
>
> No.
>
> Unlike in windows, GTK and QT can co-habitate on the same machine regardless 
> of version. Things will not be 100% backwards compatable, it is up the the 
> app devs to migrate to the new toolkit. Until then, you still need to the 
> toolkit to run the applications.
>
> As such, the package system will take care of replacing any piece of software 
> with a newer version and any new dependacies.
>
>   
>> Maurice
>> --
>> I'm using ubuntu version 7.04 ...
>> ubuntu - linux for human beings <http://www.ubuntu.com>
>>     

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