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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:54:43
Message-Id: 58965d8a1003251454x289712e5q61fd3462864f3bc6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono? by Mike Edenfield
1 On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On 3/25/2010 11:31 AM, Xi Shen wrote:
3 >> hi,
4 >>
5 >> when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and
6 >> all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes
7 >> stable, and is used in real linux application?
8 >
9 > F-Spot is written in C#. C# is a CIL-only language, and requires the
10 > Mono runtime to execute.
11 >
12 > If you consider F-Spot a "real" Linux application, then clearly Mono is
13 > used by "real" Linux applications. The author of F-Spot, at least,
14 > considered it stable enough to use.
15 >
16 > If you don't consider Mono stable, you'll have to use something other
17 > than F-Spot. Unfortunately I don't know of an application for Linux
18 > that does everything that F-Spot does, except maybe Picasa from Google?
19
20 DigiKam is great (if you don't mind KDE libs in your system).

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Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono? Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>