[Xastir] openSUSE 10.2 CVS Success

[Steve Friis]

>> Building with AX25 ................................. : yes
>> Building with Festival ............................. : yes
>> Building with GPSMan ............................... : yes
>> Building with GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick ........... : GraphicsMagick
>> Building with libproj .............................. : yes
>> Building with GeoTiff .............................. : yes
>> Building with GDAL/OGR ............................. : yes
>> Building with ShapeLib ............................. : yes
>> Building with pcre ................................. : yes
>> Building with dbfawk ............................... : yes
>> Building with map caching .......................... : yes
>> Building with rtree indexing ....................... : yes
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>
> Just curious, is it the general perception that _everything_ listed
> above that line is needed in order to run, or is it just
> overachievers (like me) that feel the need to see a positive
> indication for every option?
>
>
> Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
>   
I think it is that newbee's don't understand what they really need. 
Since getting maps to be viewable requires different libraries to be 
installed, many of us think they should just install everything just in 
case. When I first tried to use Xastir, I couldn't get maps to run. Then 
someone pointed me down the road to install the libraries. Since I 
didn't understand which libraries displayed which map types, I installed 
everything I could find back then. Now I know I don't need GDAL, I don't 
install it. I don't use the speech function, so I omit Festival during 
the configure process, but this all came as a result of using the 
program for the last year+ and learning what I really needed.

I don't see an easy way through this problem other than including more 
built-in libraries so that popular maps like the online maps just work 
out of the box. I know this would bloat the program though and this may 
not be a good thing either.

Steve/WM5Z