On Thu, 18 May 2006 19:40:35 +0300 Liviu Daia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But see, most people don't care about 29MB of hard drive space being > > used. > > Do you have statistical figures to back up this statement? How many people waste their time deleting every file they don't need from their machines? > > 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. > > Sure, I can also compile and install gd 1.8, mrtg, rrdtools, and > whatever else I need from sources (which is probably what I'll end up > doing anyway). However, that's not what the ports are all about, is it? No, ports is about providing pre-packaged software that serves most people's needs. Its doing that quite well. If you choose to make yourself a special case, that's up to you. > > > > 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. > > You are (probably intentionally) confusing features with utility. No, I am answering the question. That is why gd was upgraded. How is fixing the longstanding lack of true color image support not useful? > > Why aren't the old, obsolete versions of every piece of software in > > ports still? > > Because most other pieces of software can be upgraded without also > installing 30 MB of other software that never gets run? Really? KDE's dependencies have gotten bigger and bigger, and yet it still gets upgraded. There's lots of stuff in openbsd that you may never run, if it bothers you that's your problem, so deal with it. Adam
