On 02/04/2010 08:18 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
2544 different packages installed in my main computer.
!!!
It happens. So you want xterm. That's one package, but it depends on a
few for the shared libraries and a whole lot for fonts. Xterm can
display dozens of alphabets, and formerly odd glyps like ☑ → … ≠ are
actually used these days, even in plain English text, so installing a
wide selection of fonts by default makes sense. So you want an audio
player. It can play a dozen audio formats, most of which involve a
separate package called libfoo or blahplayer. It adds up.
Anyway, I don't need a new version until I need a new version,
and that's when I know I need a new version and I download it.
I don't download it if I don't need a new version. What I'm
reading here is that people are installing and maintaining
stuff they don't need, which I suppose explains the 2544
packages. I'd certainly never deny people the ability to
easily maintain unused and unnecessary software and we're
headed *way* off-topic, but I was just struck by how odd it
seemed that somebody who needed the new release of xml2rfc
would be frustrated by it not being in the absolutely,
completely, 100% farkakte ports system.
I think you might change your opinion after using a package manager
that's approximately 0% verkackt for a while. IMO ubuntu's is the best
there is at the moment.
(Nice word btw, first time I've seen that in English.)
Arnt
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