Comments on: A bad idea gone bad

By: azzma

azzma — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:37:06 +0000

I think it’s time you try gentoo. Lately you tried to compile some things from source wasting a lot of time for finding and resolving dependencies. This is something that gentoo’s ebuilds will manage for you, while compiling every package from source.
Don’t need pulseaudio? Set the use-flag: -pulseaudio.
Don’t need NetworkManager? Set the use-flag: -networkmanager
That experiment will be much more fun than this one with gnome. Promised

By: iandefor

iandefor — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:51:24 +0000

One of the many things I love about BSD: the ports tree makes compiling software like that from source a little less painful.

By: An_dynas

An_dynas — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:17:27 +0000

In response to a couple of recent posts: I actually kind of like dealing with Gnome — it’s easy and relatively intuitive for non-technical family member, so that’s what I normally leave running on the family machine with few complaints. My concern is with XFCE. Though this is a bit off topic, I would appreciate your thoughts. I acknowledge that Gnome is bloated and far bigger than it needs to be, but it’s trying to be all things to all people. XFCE claims that it’s aiming toward speed and responsiveness. I see very little difference in performance on my 1 Ghz CPU, both are painfully slow. This is particularly true in Ubuntu-based distros — virtually no difference exists any longer between Ubuntu and Xubuntu. I realize that you are a fan of thin, sleek implementations, but aren’t you more frustrated with XFCE than Gnome at the moment?

By: thealphanerd

thealphanerd — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:07:34 +0000

And this is why I don’t like compiling from source: dependency heck.

By: Dr Small

Dr Small — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:36:26 +0000

Yeah, I agree with you; That’s a bad idea…
Gnome’s sub(sub{sub(sub{sub(sub{sub})})})-dependencies are utterly ridiculous, and a total waste of my time.