Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 9:24 PM From: "Stuart Henderson" <s...@spacehopper.org> > I don't think so.
OK, thanks. I won't pester anyone then! :) > So you need to install multiple copies of a bunch of commom libraries? > This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Yeah, thats fair. It tends to be against most advice admittedly. However in some ways when a package drags in hundreds of tiny dependencies, it kind of starts to feel like it is no longer served perfectly well by a package manager. Everything is in such small little bits that you might as well be dealing with standard files again. So much of the cruft I simply don't want "installed" in my /usr/local (or anywhere else) at all. This is a compromise since current software (especially GUI) drags in so much of this stuff! As a slight bonus, I can have multiple versions of a package without resorting to a chroot or recompile and I get a weird sense of satisfaction when I blow it away via a simple rm -r -f. Reminds me of the good ol' days of early Mac OS X software. Would I use it on my servers? Nah ;). Typically software of that nature has less dependencies anyway. Karsten
