John Oliver wrote:
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:02:12PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
John Oliver wrote:
The gnome-session package was missing. What happened to it? Why did
gnome work, and then not work? Who knows? But installing gnome-session
(and it's utterly ridiculous family of dependencies... someone ought to
get slapped, hard)
Well, I feel that way about *all* the modern window manager things.
It's almost impossible to actually build Gnome or KDE from a .tgz file
anymore. You need a packaging system to take care of the myriad
dependencies.
Yabbut... what the hell does cdrecord have to do with a desktop manager?
This is like how the "base" install of Red Hat (and, I believe, CentOS)
includes stuff like bluetooth, isdn, pcmcia, haldaemon, cups, wireless
stuff... WTF? A base install should be just that, a bare minimum.
Well, yes. That's why I use FreeBSD instead of Linux whenever I can.
FreeBSD minimum is a whole lot more minimum than just anything I know of
in the Linux world. And FreeBSD isn't that minimum.
OpenBSD is a *lot* more minimal than FreeBSD.
-a
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