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<p>I'm an old X11R5/Motif programmer, so I wanted to see what a typical gnome application linked to. I built "gnome-hello" then ran lsbdepgraph.py to graphically see the dependencies. <br>
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<a href="http://www.linuxbase.org/~gk4/gnomehello.png">http://www.linuxbase.org/~gk4/gnomehello.png</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.linuxbase.org/~gk4/gnomehello.dot">http://www.linuxbase.org/~gk4/gnomehello.dot</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.linuxbase.org/futures/identification/depends/lsbdepgraph.py">http://www.linuxbase.org/futures/identification/depends/lsbdepgraph.py</a><br>
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Is the dependency bloat a good think or a bad thing? :-) How does this impact/influence freedesktop.org in trying to define a core desktop? Where should the specification team start (ie., a non-gnome gtk application [libglib, libgtk])?<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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George (gk4)</body></html>