- "Unless I’m mistaken, suckless in general advocates for
statically-linked standard C libraries of reasonable size.
http://suckless.org/rocks"
Actually, this page
http://suckless.org/rocks could be better.
Many useful lightweight applications are not listed.
This very old, SC, is not listed.
The program SCROT is also not listed. SCROT is a fantastic tool to have.
and so on... Cliword, Clisheet for office apps could be there too....
anyhow, it is already a wide list of tools to use. There is also
http://cli-apps.org/ that may review few more apps (maybe not so
lightweight).
- I agree regarding the previous msg of this thread ; do you really
need to have on your system all those heavy stuffs java, python,
perl, lua, ruby, ... installed to do sthg.
- Btw, ...
I am very disappointed more about this package:
reportbug <--- man, it needs python? Come on.
Luckily, that apt-get does not depends on python ;)
2014-05-16 6:50 GMT+02:00 Ryan O’Hara <rninty_AT_gmail.com>:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Markus Wichmann <nullplan_AT_gmx.net> wrote:
>> Why would you do this? It's bloody idiotic, if you think about it. It
>> would be like having all C programs ship their own libc. Have you seen
>> how big perl is? Do you really want to have two perl installations just
>> because two different programs use it?
>
> Unless I’m mistaken, suckless in general advocates for
> statically-linked standard C libraries of reasonable size.
> http://suckless.org/rocks
>
>> That, in my opinion was always the major benefit of Linux over Windows:
>> On Linux you have system wide package managers. That means each software
>> package can be as small as possible and only pull external dependencies.
>> On Windows, no such thing exists. If a program needs a lib, it has to
>> ship that lib. If you have 50 programs using that lib, on Linux you have
>> that lib once, on Windows you have it 50 times. Which way is better?
>
> It *is* one way to solve a real problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell
>
>> scripting languages are not fundamentally different!
>
> Thank you!
>
Received on Fri May 16 2014 - 12:38:51 CEST