Mike A. Harris wrote: > > Indeed. There is a tendency in OSS overall it seems for apps/libs/etc. > to sprout more and more dependencies over time just in general. It is > very observable on the desktop, and in desktopish applications, but it > is also observable at the commandline and underlying OS level too. > > Tough problem to solve I think. >
Partly due to the UNIX philosophy of compile-time feature selection. It's solvable via dlopen, etc.; it would be nice to see the toolchains help out here. -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher [email protected] ========================================================================
