Hello everyone, Firstly the discussion at hand: the MAIN reason why LSC was created is because USC is VERY heavyweight. While still having a similar simplified interface for installing software, it boots a lot faster. Secondly is Synaptic not the most intuitive way to install software. Showing a lot of technical (libs etc) between some of the packages you might want to install, LSC solves this by only showing the packages one would want to install and with a preview readily available. So it's not a means to only show packages "designed" for Lubuntu afaik.
Thirdly this is a mainly a discussion in how LSC *could* or *should* preform, not about the wiki. When you guys have made a decision on what should be put on the wiki, please cc the wiki list. I could have the wiki group make a page about installing software in Lubuntu, referring to packages that depend on libs not included by default and what the impact could be, but their might already be a page about that on the "main" wiki which we could refer to. ACTION WIKI: find a page on the wiki about installing software not aimed at a certain DE. E.g. installing ktouch inside Lubuntu, hopefully with system impact. If that page doesn't exists create one. Please reply if there isn't a page on the wiki before creating a new page. This is to keep me up-to-date. With metta, Chris P.S.: Ali, you used the "old" lubuntu list, which will be deprecated shortly. I've cc'd the new list. On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:36, PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:49 PM, amjjawad HOOHAA <amjja...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Before I reply to this post: >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11613963&postcount=252 >> I thought it's better to start such a discussion over here so that I >> understand better and we make it clear to everyone what is really going on. >> >> As far as I have learned so far and I could be wrong, the Dependencies >> Talk on a Low Resources System where usually Lubuntu is installed, is more >> about Space Issue than Loaded Files on RAM issue. >> I don't have a document or something that confirm that but I do know for >> sure that as long as nothing will be loaded in RAM, the performance won't >> be affected. >> >> I've come across MANY questions from users like: "This app has lots of >> dependencies, can I install it on Lubuntu? will that slow my system down??" >> >> For me, I can easily reply that post saying: "It's more about space >> issues than memory consuming issue + if you want, you can use the terminal >> for Synaptic." >> > > This is not necessarily true. Almost always, we add dependencies because > the program needs them at "runtime". > Most of time, these deps, especially the libraries, will be loaded at > runtime as well. > The most important issue is how much RAM is needed by programs constantly > running throughout the whole desktop session. > (web browser, panel, file manager, desktop manager, session manager, other > dbus services...) > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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