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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> wrote:
> On 3/25/2010 11:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and
>> all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes
>> stable, and is used in real linux application?
>
> F-Spot is written in C#. C# is a CIL-only language, and requires the
> Mono runtime to execute.
>
> If you consider F-Spot a "real" Linux application, then clearly Mono is
> used by "real" Linux applications. The author of F-Spot, at least,
> considered it stable enough to use.
>
> If you don't consider Mono stable, you'll have to use something other
> than F-Spot. Unfortunately I don't know of an application for Linux
> that does everything that F-Spot does, except maybe Picasa from Google?
DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system).