Thetargos wrote:
Well, Fedora has yum, which automagically handles dependencies. I thought the most prominent deps for Inkscape were the GTK-mm libraries... for build, as it is "statically linked" to them, last I knew it included the subset of gtk-mm it used, being "self contained", so it would not need gtk-mm as such to use the program, though it would be necessary for building the program from source (like if building from CVS)
Does yum automatically handle build dependencies as well as runtime dependencies? That is a very handy functionality. Otherwise you will need to install all the *-devel packages. If you are building for your own use you shouldn't need to worry about statically linking. We do this for distributed packages to increase the coverage that we can get out of just a few packages and reduce the problems users have.
In a quick search this morning, I saw some indications that maybe creating an autopackage for 64bit distros would be possible. Would you be interested in learning how to create these packages? 64bit distros are becoming more and more useable. It would be nice to cater to those users too.
Aaron Spike