> > Please don't. One reason Dovecot is so easy to get up and running > quickly is that it has minimal dependencies. For those of us who > aren't running Linux on PCs that can become a headache very quickly, > as the authors of many of the depended-upon libraries often get > "creative" with nonportable GCCisms and other such nonsense. And even > when one *is* running Linux on a PC, sometimes we don't want to build > fifteen packages in order to build one. > > That's not to say that simply adding one dependency on glib would > cause a huge problem...but it indicates the adoption of a mindset, and > it's a slippery slope. I must say, though, that glib2 is rather excellent (and very portable)
It's among the few pieces of software that depending upon makes me trust more, not less. Aria
