Linux fat/bloated
Walter Dnes
waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Fri Apr 7 03:32:04 UTC 2006
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:10:18AM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote
> Take a look at klik then. I haven't used it myself, but it seems to
> beis gaining a decent following. Now of course, it is for desktop
> apps, but still... You'll notice, however, that OpenOffice is not
> available anywhere on the site ;) http://klik.atekon.de/
Gentoo handles dependancies very well, and that's what I currently
use. The "portage" utility figures out what you need and pulls it in.
Since Gentoo builds most stuff from source tarballs, it doesn't have
the RPM syndrome of having to worry about whatever weird combination of
libraries was on the developer's machine when he built the RPM. My
benchmark for Gentoo dependancy management is...
- build a text-console-only system
- "emerge gimp" just before going to bed
When I get up to go to work, I have a functional Gimp and support
libs, along with a functional TWM, X windowing gui and support libs.
RPM-hell... what's that? And for bonus points, Gentoo will build apps
optimized to use every last feature of *MY* cpu, not a lowest-common-
denominator cpu.
Yes, there are dependancy-handling solutions that will pull in all
the necessary dependancies. They solve the symptom, but not the root
problem.
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