Linux fat/bloated

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:37:35PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote

> Well that does make it harder.  Debian's system at least tries to deal
> with that, and usually manages.  There are people who don't know what
> they are doing making packages with crappy dependancies however which
> break things.  The system can't protect you from human error.

  Case in point... older versions of OpenOffice.  Would not build
without PAM, and wouldn't build or run without Java.  After a lot of
yelling and screaming, the current version will build against GCJ
instead of a Java runtime, and it'll build with merely PAM-headers
present, not requiring PAM itself.  It's one of the few packages for
which I opt to use a pre-built binary.

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