On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? You can in the same way that if you change too much of an engine you need to change the structure supporting the engine. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
