On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:24:58 +0300 Liviu Daia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I never said I have a problem running a stripped down system. What > I do have a (conceptual) problem with is making a bunch of console > applications dependent on 30 MB of code that never gets run, for no good > reason. But see, most people don't care about 29MB of hard drive space being used. If you do, then you need to be smart enough to only install the 1MB you actually need. You already had to install freetype for gd 1.x, the only difference now is that freetype is in a tarball with some other X related stuff, instead of on its own. Delete the other stuff if you don't like it. > > Truecolor images. Support for gifs. Anti-aliased fonts. > > Are these relevant to my question? If you still don't get it, what > I'm asking is: what are the disadvantages of keeping both 2.0.x and > 1.8.x? Yes, they are. That is why gd was updated, which is what you asked. The old version is not kept because its a waste of time and effort. Why aren't the old, obsolete versions of every piece of software in ports still? Adam
