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

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

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.

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