From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nuv0k-0007Y2-TK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:54:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3ECAE0819; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74744E0819 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:54:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so5517015pwj.40 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:54:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=q3py+sOaKAy+tu/cwGf7Zppqn5jycJ6RlqAx0wGq9xo=; b=KCtenG8XczHdEcPiJ7Jdk0p/U27fD8xalxPMBr8NqxVXoXC7qkN2sTxm5rldbgWkkZ mAJ+bLWxGFcesaxyarw/8wAY0237jLtQC53W2FWaEMuDz1JF6qd8mffE7CFL1S0a2Mf4 DUxDP5icI7wwnxbcdfOZZr9bxJiwA49HY33sY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=fMHkAm6h5UOuEPaV8GdzYi+omNOhFzMqIJ+QWaMwNjKFyqeFhk7g2pKSOf6l1serXb z/W/zSzBQYe1yFNrjzY9dr3DAriIbwZftDA+I4i/GO9HQ0hCGZtkNfwK9NOPGr9inb6w Udj2n6LklWiaErQ0eikNL9nx8VhNKy26ifLcc= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.215.2 with SMTP id n2mr6060891wag.141.1269554059960; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:54:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BAB9F15.20806@kutulu.org> References: <53e35fd51003250831u243f7a26rd15e45af50d46eb6@mail.gmail.com> <4BAB9F15.20806@kutulu.org> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:54:19 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: f3234df6edc0ce78 Message-ID: <58965d8a1003251454x289712e5q61fd3462864f3bc6@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: c8f1dce3-2011-428c-bc96-5c8744ef4bc6 X-Archives-Hash: 14c82ca4f6ab1117cf3e2aacb526b709 On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mike Edenfield 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).