Rob Landley, 04.01.2009: > On Saturday 03 January 2009 18:37:12 Leon Woestenberg wrote: > > My argument on thin dependencies indeed mostly holds for run-time > > dependencies (to reduce size) but also for build dependency (to reduce > > complexity)*. > > I usually just point to the gnucash 1.6 release as where this sort of thing > leads if you ignore it long enough: > http://lwn.net/2001/0614/ > > These days, a more modern example is the way that after even the gentoo folks > gave up on trying to build openoffice (and shipped prebuilt binaries of it in > their "build everything from source code" OS), Open Office's own developers > described that project "profoundly sick" and "stagnating" ( > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/28/0124230 ).
Now that you mention this the second time, I have to ask where you have this information from. Since I use Gentoo, I was always able to compile OpenOffice (version 1, 2 and now 3) myself. At the same time, it was always possible to use prebuilt packages as an alternative - the same way as it is possible for a few other packages (Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, maybe more). But AFAIK compiling from source is still the preferred method. Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
