On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:33:38AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I wanted to install gnumeric but the dep list is huge here (see > below) > > is there a way to shrink it.. is there any scope for this building > > from source? > > Do you not run many gnome packages ?? Many of those are pretty > "standard" packages that you would need installed anyway for other > gnome programs.
no, afaik I only use dia from gnome .. which is excelllent but (obviously) didnt ask me to install all the gnome stuff. I use a hacked up blackbox (ongoing plaything of mine) as WM .. boots in some fraction of a second and is very fast to work it.. > > Compiling from source may not be any better. For example, in > addition to needing "esound-common" installed, you may also need hmm why do I need sound at all.. its a spreadsheet.. that was one of the strangest deps I was hoping could be disabled in the source. I never have desktop sounds enabled.. Wouldn't mind if it was just gnome-libs, but that list is ott. > there may be configure options that would allow you to disable some > functions and get away with not needing a package, but it would > likely be more trouble than it's worth. certainly sounds like it :( I'll give it a miss I think.. I suppose if I find enough gnome things that require all this stuff I won't mind so much.. just seemed a lot for a single package.
