Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > > What I call "convenience", you call "bloat". This holds irrespective > of library, language, or application. Taken a look at a "convenience" > install of Python or Perl. Or, better yet, lets put you on a "real" > Unix system and see how many libraries you have to suck in to use your > favorite applications.
Bare install of Sun Solaris 2.6, and I wanted to run Window Maker. List of things I had to install: libPropList libXpm libpng zlib libtiff libungif gettext Bare install of Sun Solaris 8, and I wanted to run Window Maker 0.91.0: fontconfig freetype libjpeg libpng libungif render tiff xft xpm xrender This is jsut for a window manager. > The only difference is that we gave C bloat a name--Linux. I'd prefer to call it GNU. Though Linux is getting bloatier: it will no longer fit onto a single 1.44M floppy. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
