Thank you Sir for the respect of your reply! Oh I get the what and why for but I know something that is happening at times and it makes it hard at compile time. Namely developers simply forget that what is the norm on their machines seldom reflects what an end user would have on theirs even with a complete OS... more so when dealing with the libs... I keep a log of what libs I install but for the life of me... I can't remember what I do have without the log... so... I guess I do it too! <heh> Also, someone mentioned that there is becoming a split in the Linux community... or something to that effect. There has always been a split from the early times... GNU vs BSD vs everyone else... Time hasn't help these splits but made them greater. Personally I don't like the GNU licensing at all but the BSD seems a bit better and as for the 'others' well... there will always be independent souls that's what 'free' stands for... free as in freedom NOT free from all costs... <heh> thanks again vince On Thursday 14 December 2006 01:33, Esben Stien wrote: > Vince Werber <ka1iic@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > don't we all love those small foot-print applications that require a > > heap load of other apps and libs to run. > > This is a strength of free software and I really don't think there's > enough of it, many times;). Often as well, many apps implement > features, that really should be in libraries, so that other > applications may use it easily as well;).
