In defense (was Re: what to do about Windows email worms)

[pardsbane at offthehill.org (Joshua Pollak)]

On Jan 28, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Joshua Pollak <pardsbane at offthehill.org> writes:
>
>> Yeah, I used Kapital and maintain some Gentoo ebuilds for it. Don't
>> use it unless you don't care about accurate balances. GNUCash I tried,
>> it has 300 million dependancies and I just got bored trying to compile
>> it. For taxes, I just use the web version of TurboTax. I know that
>> might not be the greatest for my privacy, but I get to use the
>> platform of my choice.
>
> The "300 million dependencies" are basically "you need all of GNOME
> 1.4".  This is really a gnome problem, not a gnucash problem..  And
> frankly all the major distributions come with gnucash pre-packaged.
> Yes, it was nearly impossible to compile gnucash 1.6 when it was
> first released (back in 2000!).  But today's code is widely avalable.
>
> You should try it again.  Or if you run Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake,
> SuSE, or Gentoo, you should just pull in the package!

Well, I run a GNOME-free Gentoo, so unfortunately, its not really an 
option. I realize that being GNOME free is just be being ornery, but I 
have a problem with installing tons of packages and using all that disk 
space (yeah, I know, its cheap, like I said, I'm ornery) that I'll 
never run just so I can try out one app...

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