Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:50:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Denis Troshin <weiv@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <20030901155041.GA68823@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <29508631.20030901165843@mail.ru> References: <29508631.20030901165843@mail.ru>
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In the last episode (Sep 01), Denis Troshin said: > Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. > This 'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other > unix-systems) to an ugly monster. > > For example, I don't need Perl or Python but a few packages I > install require them. > > Does exist a programming under unix without these dependencies? > > P.S. Under Windows it is possible to write not bad applications > which depend just on libraries (KERNEL32, USER32, GDI32). And these > libs exist on every base system!!! Windows has the same problems. Are you seriously saying you've never had to download a vbrun*.dll to get a Windows program that required Visual Basic to run? Or maybe had to download one of the many patches that afflict the MS Java implementation? > Is it possible in unix? Of course. Most programs in the ports tree are standalone. 95% of the programs in the base system are standalone. > Before I thought that unix programs very compact, but they are huge! Some are huge, some are small. There are a lot of Windows programs that are huge too (MS Word, for example). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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