Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 1, 2014 13:48 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by Robin.Hill
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Quite. This isn't *multiplying* dependencies: it's recognizing that things *have* lots of dependencies, and finding a way to make that less hellish than now. It all seems very sensible to me, and completely compatible with any package manager at all, and even with roll-yer-own systems. I want it! (Once btrfs is stable enough for production use, that is.)

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 2, 2014 11:17 UTC (Tue) by cjcoats (guest, #9833) [Link] (1 responses)

It is my experience that the claim, "things have lots of dependencies"
almost always comes from not having thought the thing through -- and
I've seen lots of it over the course of thirty years experience with
systems architecture.

To be honest, "thinking things through" properly is quite rare ;-(

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 3, 2014 22:33 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Uh. Things really *do* have lots of dependencies. Have a look at the dep list for gnumeric, or Chromium with all the third-party stuff possible split out, or Firefox, or almost *anything* other than games (which for cross-compatibility reasons try to avoid depending on anything but SDL and OpenAL much of the time).