On May 25, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
> 5One of the things that I really think our business could learn from is
> how sparse a basic installation of Solaris is. Yes, there's lots of
> arguments about different flavors of Linux, etc. but the thing that I
> run into the most is the horrible cross connection of things in places
> that make no real sense. The installation of a simple library can
> result in a dozen or so other things being added to the pile. Things
> that really make little sense.
>
> I don't have a specific example at the moment and I have to qualifiy
> it with statements like "Using {RedHat|CentOS|SciLinux} & Yum". The
> thing that bit me the most recently was that to install a simple thing
> (non-gui based tool) resulted in a half dozen X11 packages being
> incorporated into the pile.
I had this exact experience with Solaris countless times. Linux is
arguably worse, but Sun was also never good about keeping their
dependency structures clean. I ended up with very sparse, and fully
functional for their purposes, Solaris installations, but only by
ignoring dependency warnings on the installs.
My main current problem with Linux software management is that YUM
doesn't give me the opportunity to ignore dependencies; it just does
what it wants, which can be very annoying at times.
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