> > 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..
Yeah, I picked a good example, didn't I ?? In fact, gnumeric may not have any sound capabilities at all. Maybe it does... Where esound comes in is that *another* package that gnumeric requires requires esound itself. Aren't dependencies great ?? ;-) > 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 :( This leads to another question: If a "--disable-something" option is given to the ./configure script, is the Makefile dynamic in that it won't check for the file(s) that would normally take care of what's been disabled ?? Does that make sense ?? ;-) Hall
