Re: [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure

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On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:05 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2007, mail <lists@×××××.net> wrote about 'Re:
> [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure':
> > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 04:47 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > On Friday 23 February 2007 16:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > > On Friday 23 February 2007, mail <lists@×××××.net> wrote about 'Re:
> > > >
> > > > [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure':
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > but none of the masking or keywords work. It seems that
> > > > > gnucash is dead.
> > > > > I wonder why it is in portage at all?
> > >
> > > Nope. app-office/gnucash is not dead:
> > >
> > > I had to install the following packages to get gnucash working:
> >
> > glib is 2.5 installed so I don't know why gnucash needs a broken 1.2?
>
> Because those two versions are anywhere near source or binary compatible.
> Glib changed significantly between 1.x and 2.x, so that programs written
> against 1.x have to be non-trivially ported to 2.x.
>
> I'm also not sure if there is any way to support 1.x and 2.x of glib from
> the same codebase.  If not, that would make migration doubly difficult.
>
> > I
> > tried every combination of keywords and masks and use flags so far in
> > this thread on 2 different computers and I get errors that the packages
> > can't be installed, and I keep running into the same bug as the top of
> > this thread. Am I missing something?
>
> Yes.  Clearly, you are incapable of following our directions without a bit
> more guidance or doing any independent research on the problem.  I can
> provide that guidance for the low price of 28.50 USD an hour, with a
> minimum charge of 4 hours; you'll have gnucash installed at the end or no
> charge at all.  To get started, I'll need your payment information and the
> contents of /etc/portage/package.* and /etc/make.conf and the output
> of 'emerge --info', 'ls /etc/portage', 'ls -d /etc/make.profile'; I
> believe the list would prefer you send this information with private
> email.
>
> For a more expensive, but very reasonable 42.75 USD an hour, you can just
> give me root access to your Gentoo box(es) and I'll fix them all.  While
> you do take a bit of a risk (I can do anything with root access, right?),
> since my access is part of a business arragement my liability for damage I
> cause, especially intentionally, just went up 10x (or more), at least in
> my jurisdiction.
>
> > If this is a but, won't it be
> > fixed in some new version of portage?
>
> There *a* bug covered at the top of the thread.  It is (1) not a bug with
> portage, but rather a single package and (2) not likely to get fix since
> that version of the package depends on (broken) glib 1.x.
>

Thanks Boyd, for your generous offer! I will take a bit more time and
read through the gentoo docs again. If I run out of time, I will take
you up on that!

Thanks again
rick

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