Linux fat/bloated

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:01:07AM +0300, Peter wrote:
> Imho Perl is not so bad but I wish they had not obfuscated the manpages 
> ...
> 
> Anyway shipping a Linux distro with 2,500 applications preinstalled 
> requires four nines for zero bugs. Also the dependency tree is at least 
> three deep for most applications. Unless something will be done about 
> this soon (esp. dependencies) bad things will start happening. A 3-deep 
> dependency tree is not sustainable imho. Maybe partially precompiled 
> libraries can reduce the depth of the dependency tree.

I don't have problems with the dependancy tree on debian.  Depth is not
an issue.  Correctness is.  If the dependancy list is complete and only
contains what is needed, then it will simply work, no matter if you end
up with a 50 level dependancy.

Partially precompiled libraries doesn't make sense, and just sounds like
a huge mess.

Besides the dependancies are handled entirely by the packaging system,
all you ahve to do is tell it what packages you want installed and it
handles everything else for you.

Len Sorensen
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