On Monday 10 November 2003 14:12, Brent Fox wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:07, seth vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:01, Brent Fox wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 07:05, Julien Olivier wrote: > > > > > 1) Is it Python and PyGTK that is the programming language or can > > > > > we use C/C++? (Not that we don't think Python is advanced enough) > > > > > > > > I'd like to jump on the occasion to ask a question too :) > > > > > > > > If one does a config tool in python, does it have to be pyGTK or > > > > pyGNOME > > > > > > pygtk if at all possible. The more we can avoid dependencies, the > > > easier the tools will be to maintain. I really want the tools to be > > > able to work on a KDE system without having to have lots of Gnome stuff > > > installed. > > > > > > Since GTK2, a lot of the nicer widgets that were once part of the Gnome > > > widget set were moved into GTK itself, so I can't think of many reasons > > > why pyGnome widgets would be necessary. > > > > err. some of the various redhat-config programs have an req for > > gnome2-python > > > > example: > > redhat-config-packages > > redhat-config-printer-gui > > redhat-config-network > > redhat-config-bind > > redhat-config-httpd > > We should take a look and figure out exactly why those dependencies > exist. The deps may be a holdover from the gtk1.2 days. On the other > hand, there may be valid dependencies that I'm not aware of. You should add up2date to the list of packages which require gnome but probably really does/should not. -- Gene