Premise: I am still running RH9, will directly switch to Fedora Core 2 when it is released. In the meantime, I subscribed to this list to get familiar with FC. I am writing this both to point out a potential issue with FC and to know more about it. Now, to the point: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 18:16:11 PM +0200, pinco (pinco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > For some application, as I understood, I should have different > programs because they depend on others: OpenOffice use Mozilla, so > even if I don't like this browser I must have its libraries, if I > decide to use Gnome I must have even the KDE libraries, because some > programs require them, and so on. I have already seen, in the original threads, a couple of people answering more or less "so what?" to Nino's concern above. Does OOo *really* require Mozilla to install on FC? If so, it *is* bad. Like, originally, was the case of Abiword 2.0 on RH9: the available RPM of this "lightweight" word processor would force the install of a list of Gnome stuff (really unlikely, as KDE, to be found on PCs who need lightweight) for a total of ~40 MB. In general, careless packaging like this means that custom installs, selecting packages by hand, are much less effective, since one has to install (and later upgrade/maintain) much more than he will ever use or need anyway. It means that more people are forced without a real reason to upgrade the hardware, just to store bytes that will never be used. NOTE: Before trying to reply with any variation of the extremely un-Linuxish "Hardware is so cheap" myth, please read the FAQ of the project in my signature (hopefully coming to FC2 asap). Now: 1) Can the OOo/Mozilla dependency be removed, if present, in FC2? 2) Can you point out other examples of dependencies which fill your hard disk without a real reason in Fedora Core? Let's hunt *this* kind of bugs for a change. TIA, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ It's always socially unacceptable to be right too soon. -- RAH
