Jonathan Underwood wrote: > Because gentoo builds from source on your local machine, building in > support for componenets as specified by your USE flags, whereas Fedora > is a binary distribution, and dependencies are generated during the > building of those binaries. > > Now, why don't my apples taste like oranges? > > Jonathan. > Bollocks. I am quite aware of the differences between the two distros. Do not insult my intelligence. The point I'm making is that some dependencies seem unnecessary. (Again, I'm unable to come up with a specific example at the moment, since I'm at work, but I'm sure there will be a post shortly that says 'why do I need this to install this?') Adding all those dozens upon dozens of dependencies in just result in bloated binaries and lowered performance because of that. Surely, NOT including the 'kitchensink' dependency will cut down on the size of binaries. Not to mention lowering the bloat on a system. -- Frustra laborant quotquot se calculationibus fatigant pro inventione quadraturae circuli Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
