On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:00:23AM +0100, Jens Staal wrote: > For me, this is a nicer solution than for example pacman to keep track on > which files that belong to which package (no fragile databases needed). I am > also happy to report that dmenu/dwm works nicely on Sabotage (however, it > seems like some of the xlibs can not be linked statically).
Slackware does this without crapping up the disk: the manifest is in the file /var/log/packages/packagename. If you need to know where a file came from, just grep the path in that directory. > What I have noticed lately is however how much of the broken stuff that are > expected to build also relatively fundamental technologies. For example, mesa > (which is needed if one ever wants to run wayland instead of X) expects > libudev to build, and if the version requirements will increase further that > will basically force systemd on peopole. When I discovered wayland required mesa, I cited it as the biggest problem wayland had. Now it has other problems, but mesa still really sucks. Not only does it depend on libudev, it has a build-time dep on libxml2 (unsure if that is also runtime). How does it run on FreeBSD? I know it still pulls in XML crap, but surely they're not building a dummy udev in the linux emulation layer? > I am starting to think of this as the Fragile X syndrome, which usually > refers > to a genetic disease causing mental retardation ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_X_syndrome ). I am starting to feel that > Linux is having a serious case of its digital variant. I love this. Fragile X11 Syndrome. The only difference is it's caused *by* mental retardation.
