[ILUG] Galeon and gnome

[Rick Moen]

Quoting David Neary (bolsh at gimp.org):
> Rick Moen wrote:

>> It lies like a cheap toupee.
> 
> Only if you don't consider "requires GNOME" as valid shorthand
> for "requires gnome-common, bonobo, libart, libgnomeui, libgnome, 
> gtk+, glib, etc, etc, etc" - pretty much all the gnome libraries 
> are required.

Yes, the libs list for Galeon is pretty horrendous.  But you seem to 
be going to some lengths to miss my point, which is that "running GNOME",
as Niall intends the term, isn't required.

In fact, largely my point is that the terms "running GNOME" and "running
KDE" are illusory concepts that stand in the way of understanding the
fundamental situation.

> Here you're right. Of course. Just because an application is
> using a library doesn't mean you have to be running any other
> application that needs the library. But you also contradict
> yourself... here you say that gnome is (basically) a gui toolkit
> & a corba broker (which is pretty much accurate) - the
> installation of which are required for galeon. Yet previously you
> said that whoever said gnome was required for galeon was lying
> like a cheap toup?e.

Excuse me, no. 

The list of libs dependencies for Galeon is ridiculously long, but
nonetheless doesn't equate to installing (or "running") GNOME.  It means
installing a bunch of libs and some glue code.  Compare that against the
entire marching band that is GNOME, at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/ and
elsewhere.  Big difference.

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