[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root partition?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 @ 11:43 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:

> Hear hear.  The dependency tree for ANYTHING that uses even tiny parts
> of Gnome is insane, because the dependency tree for Gnome itself is
> insane.  (I remember there was one period when you could not compile
> Gnome from source on a machine that did not already have Gnome
> installed, because somehow they'd managed to get *VERTICAL* cyclic
> dependencies.)

I thought originally the whole idea of Gnome was that they would use
IPC to build the system, so that your dependencies were flexible.

In other words, if your program could not contact a particular service,
then it just did without it.

But it seems like even though the framework is there, none of it is
optional.

Also, Gnome looks butt-ugly without a lot of the stuff turned on.

Why did they tie the themes into other dependencies?  I understand they
need things like rendering, etc, but it some dependencies are just nuts.

For example, in order to have a desktop clock, you must also have the
horrid mess that is Evolution installed.

Huh?



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