Denis Troshin wrote this message on Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 16:58 +0700:
Sorry for all the responses that don't directly answer your question,
but you did ask it in a rather tactless way by saying it's a mess w/o
understanding the reasoning behind it.
Almost every package I install requires a
First off, let me say that FreeBSD is one of the cleanest systems out
there as the developers try to remove bigger packages from the base
system instead of adding more bloat every release. One example would be
the removal of perl from the base distribution in 5.x.
As for perl and the other
Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. This
'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other
unix-systems) to an ugly monster.
For example, I don't need Perl or Python but a few packages I install
require them.
Does exist a programming under unix
On 16:58 Mon 01 Sep , Denis Troshin wrote:
P.S. Under Windows it is possible to write not bad applications which
depend just on libraries (KERNEL32, USER32, GDI32). And these libs
exist on every base system!!!
Is it possible in unix?
Before I thought that unix programs very
In the last episode (Sep 01), Denis Troshin said:
Almost every package I install requires a few other packages.
This 'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other
unix-systems) to an ugly monster.
For example, I don't need Perl or Python but a few packages I
install
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Denis Troshin wrote:
Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. This
'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other
unix-systems) to an ugly monster.
At least the dependencies are taken care of for you automatically in
FreeBSD, unlike some
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Denis Troshin wrote:
Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. This 'idea
of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other unix-systems) to
an ugly monster.
For example, I don't need Perl or Python but a few packages I install
require them.
Denis Troshin wrote:
Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. This
'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other
unix-systems) to an ugly monster.
You're right. The authors of the offending software packages
should not do that. It's going to
