On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Henning Larsen <hennlar@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry about that :( > > > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:24 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Henning Larsen <hennlar@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I thought Linux is about openness not lockin like it is now. > > > > No nobody is locking anything. How do you justify calling this > > locking? It's a dependency not a lock. > > I actually enjoy running Linux on all my computers, I run F7, F8, F9, > CentOS and ........ ubuntu. I just dont understand why the deps go so > deep. Today I wanted to install Thunar, XFCE's file-manager and it was > dependent on XFCE's Terminal-emulator, why? > > I think most Linux-distros is great, but things can be even better. Not in this specific regard. Or would you prefer 10 versions of the same DLL? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )