GIMP 2 RPM for RedHat?
Howard B Owen
howen at cisco.com
Fri Apr 16 21:25:25 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 12:27, David Thompson wrote:
> Upgrading some package <foo> to the newest version could require
> upgrades to <bar>, <qux>, and <fang> as well, plus the addition of
> new items <gack> and <rech>. I would appreciate the choice between
> "the fixed, same-old version of <foo> which is easy to install" and
> "the new version of <foo>, which requires new versions of its
> dependents *and* introduces new dependencies which haven't existed
> up to this point, plus config file changes, etc., etc., etc."
This is certainly the set of choices with gimp2. With its tight coupling
with gtk+, it brings a whole slew of dependencies in with it.
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