John R. Culleton wrote:
One last plea, offered earlier. If there is something magic about the Boehm garbage collector it should be included in the source release if legally possible. I know of no other application that requres it and Slackware at least does not offer it even as an option. Or perhaps it could be deleted altogether. The first thing the user discovers after downloading is that they have to download, compile and install yet another package. This is an instant turnoff.
This is not meant to start a favorite distro flame war, but realize that you are asking Inkscape to change its dependencies based upon the user experience provided by your distro. Perhaps you could submit a request to slackware asking for Inkscape and its dependencies be packaged. This would certainly benefit inkscape more than an attempt to remove garbage collection from the codebase. Also I think that there are a number of negatives with including other packages in our source distribution.
There are a few other pacakges that require libgc. Here is the list from Ubuntu Dapper Drake:
aaron@...1932...:~$ apt-cache showpkg libgc1c2 Package: libgc1c2 Versions: 1:6.6-2ubuntu1(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Reverse Depends: w3m-img,libgc1c2 w3m,libgc1c2 inkscape,libgc1c2 w3mmee,libgc1c2 w3m-img,libgc1c2 synopsis,libgc1c2 stalin,libgc1c2 openc++,libgc1c2 oo2c,libgc1c2 libocc0c2a,libgc1c2 goo,libgc1c2 chase,libgc1c2 asymptote,libgc1c2 w3m,libgc1c2 libgc-dev,libgc1c2 1:6.6-2ubuntu1 inkscape,libgc1c2
Aaron Spike