- "Unless I’m mistaken, suckless in general advocates for statically-linked standard C libraries of reasonable size. http://suckless.org/rocks";
Actually, this page http://suckless.org/rocks could be better. Many useful lightweight applications are not listed. This very old, SC, is not listed. The program SCROT is also not listed. SCROT is a fantastic tool to have. and so on... Cliword, Clisheet for office apps could be there too.... anyhow, it is already a wide list of tools to use. There is also http://cli-apps.org/ that may review few more apps (maybe not so lightweight). - I agree regarding the previous msg of this thread ; do you really need to have on your system all those heavy stuffs java, python, perl, lua, ruby, ... installed to do sthg. - Btw, ... I am very disappointed more about this package: reportbug <--- man, it needs python? Come on. Luckily, that apt-get does not depends on python ;) 2014-05-16 6:50 GMT+02:00 Ryan O’Hara <rni...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Markus Wichmann <nullp...@gmx.net> wrote: >> Why would you do this? It's bloody idiotic, if you think about it. It >> would be like having all C programs ship their own libc. Have you seen >> how big perl is? Do you really want to have two perl installations just >> because two different programs use it? > > Unless I’m mistaken, suckless in general advocates for > statically-linked standard C libraries of reasonable size. > http://suckless.org/rocks > >> That, in my opinion was always the major benefit of Linux over Windows: >> On Linux you have system wide package managers. That means each software >> package can be as small as possible and only pull external dependencies. >> On Windows, no such thing exists. If a program needs a lib, it has to >> ship that lib. If you have 50 programs using that lib, on Linux you have >> that lib once, on Windows you have it 50 times. Which way is better? > > It *is* one way to solve a real problem. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_Hell > >> scripting languages are not fundamentally different! > > Thank you! >
