On Tuesday 12 July 2005 05:11 pm, Stefan Teleman wrote: > i was referring to all the libraries on which both GNOME and KDE have > dependencies. for example: libxml2, libxslt, libpng, libz, libjpeg, > etc, etc. > > currently, the situation seems to me a little out of control.
<tongue in cheek> You think so? </tongue in cheek> This has been building over the past few years and there just doesn't seem to be any good solution for everyone. Originally, before Solaris turned into OpenSolaris, and when Sun was adding to the Companion CD, the idea some in the community had was to build upon it so we didn't duplicate and add what was not there in hopes that it would eventually move into the Companion CD through community built software. OpenSolaris doesn't help any, and probably makes it worse with more people using more libs and such as you mention above. Blastwave has all of their own set of libraries, and Sun has many of their own in /usr/sfw even, Sunfreeware has their own, pkgsrc has theirs, and I imagine that gentoo/portaris has their own also... This just keeps growing and will only get worse, but as I said, I don't see any great solution without *EVERYONE* making some compromise. I don't mind /usr/local myself, mainly because most all open source software uses it by default. However, Solaris users and the community has always been a bit harsh towards using it. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
