Re: Software installation using gnome

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Jan 6, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Toby Smithe wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 12:21 -0800, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> > This is primarily why it's difficult to get commercial applications on
> > GNOME.  They have to make packages for every flavor of distributions 
> > out there.  We have yet to get a standard in package management.
>
> Packages could just be installed, with all their dependencies, locally 
> - like they are on Windows. However, this always seemed a waste of 
> space to me: why have more than one copy of a library file installed?
> ...

Because the cost of disk space is less than US$0.0005/MB, and dropping. 
Of course there are other reasons for applications to use the same copy 
of a library (such as lower memory consumption and easier security 
updates). But if you are optimizing for disk space consumption rather 
than for the ability of people to install software *at all*, you are 
solving the wrong problem.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/