> From: Paul Rogers <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:27:09 -0800 > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Toolkits > > > I was questioning your requirements. The mention of firefox and > > lightweight seemed to be a contradiction to me. > > Not knowing anything about what sites I have to visit, what they > support, what I have to do there, rather than answer my question > about toolkits, you decided something else would work better for me > than firefox? What is this fascination with requiring firefox? I > don't get it. > > In the first place, even if it were a contradiction, just because I have > to have firefox has no relevance for making the rest of the system light > and efficient. If one piece of the system doesn't meet some arbitrary > standard, then the whole thing is ruined and nothing should be done to > make any of it right? Nonsense. > > What ever happened to "Your system, your rules"? "We don't like your > rules," is it? So is it now we have to answer to some other rules to > get a straightforward answer to a question about the tradeoffs for > managing toolkits in some efficient for the time being? From what I've > seen, even GTK3 is a headache, breaking things from release to release. > . . >
Paul, I think that this has spiralled a little bit: ISTM that there was an initial sidelight-remark apparent conflation of lightweight-DE with lightweight-programs; which of course is a not necessarily true (er, 'opposite-of-')dichotomy; e.g. & fwiw, on linux when using x, I use twm, but all sorts of 'heavyweight' programs (as/when ~needed). Yes, it can be irritating to anyone at times to get an apparently oblique/indirect/points-switching/derailing reply. But at least sometimes, those can be useful in viewing the situation from a different angle: and it can be a bit self-defeating - in the central objective of getting helpful input - to simply put the foot down and 'require' people to shuddup-dammit-and-answer-the-direct-question-directly--and-only-that . ? akh -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
