20 Nov
2004
20 Nov
'04
1:37 p.m.
Quoth Istvan Seidel on or about 2004-11-20:
it seems to get an endless domino play... inkscape needs...
<smug>This is a dependency cascade. Distros that use apt-get or yum or fink (or BSD ports?) can solve these automatically.</smug>
Some of the mentioned libaries are only for win available as i guess, like 'atk'.
atk is the GNOME accessibility toolkit; if I guess correctly it handles keybindings and things. I have it on my system.
why does 'inkscape need so many libs, on a system where 0.39 is already installed?
Because you distributor has split packages into foo and foo-dev packages, as they should. To *run* an application, you only need the runtime part. To *build* an application, you also need the development packages.
-trent