On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Charles Forsyth <fors...@terzarima.net> wrote: > rather than continue to live for the next 20 years with > (say) 20- to 30-year old include file structures and library implementations > that became overly complicated (and badly implemented), a better > approach might be to separate the libraries from the much larger distribution > of plan 9-based commands etc, and make them available in the usual way > as packages to import using the (many different) package managers on > Unix-like systems. >
9base? (http://tools.suckless.org/9base) Doesn't stick to just libraries but already has packages on Ubungo anyways. I think it at least cuts the GUI tools which eliminates the xorg-dev requirement which is probably the most onerous. -eric