Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: DFS Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: When will the madness end? Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:06:22 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 288 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:06:21 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="31d28351982304b8d57cb7a4ee4f1c04"; logging-data="1948788"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/KFNaliJlFy0Kn9i2P2cmU" User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+38AGg1ndwe+a4+z9KaJQp99lmQ= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 6784 On 3/24/2024 9:36 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: > >> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:20:14 -0400, DFS wrote: >> >>> 419MB of disk space and 214 newly installed packages for a hobbyist, >>> simple-simon text editor? > > The "madness" lies in starting with a base install, installing a GNOME editor, > being suprised that it installs a bunch of stuff for the GNOME desktop, and > then counting it up and posting it to COLA. Minimum 419MB of disk space and 259 packages (dependencies and suggested) for that piece of crap? And what are all those sound-related libraries doing in there? Notepad++ is doomed. for i,pkg in enumerate(sorted(set(packages.split()))): print(i+1,pkg) ------------------------------- 1 accountsservice 2 adwaita-icon-theme 3 alsa-topology-conf 4 alsa-ucm-conf 5 alsa-utils 6 aspell 7 aspell-doc 8 aspell-en 9 at-spi2-core 10 bubblewrap 11 colord 12 cups-common 13 dbus-user-session 14 dconf-gsettings-backend 15 dconf-service 16 debhelper 17 dictionaries-common 18 docbook 19 docbook-defguide 20 docbook-dsssl 21 docbook-xml 22 docbook-xsl 23 emacsen-common 24 enchant-2 25 evince 26 fontconfig 27 gedit 28 gedit-common 29 gedit-plugins 30 gir1.2-atk-1.0 31 gir1.2-freedesktop 32 gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 33 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 34 gir1.2-gtksource-4 35 gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 36 gir1.2-pango-1.0 37 gir1.2-peas-1.0 38 glib-networking 39 glib-networking-common 40 glib-networking-services 41 gnome-shell 42 gsettings-desktop-schemas 43 gstreamer1.0-alsa 44 gstreamer1.0-gl 45 gstreamer1.0-libav 46 gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad 47 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 48 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 49 gstreamer1.0-x 50 gtk-update-icon-cache 51 gvfs 52 hicolor-icon-theme 53 humanity-icon-theme 54 hunspell 55 hunspell-en-us 56 jackd2 57 libaa1 58 libasound2 59 libasound2-data 60 libasound2-plugins 61 libaspell1 62 libaspell15 63 libasyncns0 64 libatk-bridge2.0-0 65 libatk1.0-0 66 libatk1.0-data 67 libatspi2.0-0 68 libavahi-client3 69 libavahi-common-data 70 libavahi-common3 71 libavc1394-0 72 libcaca0 73 libcairo-gobject2 74 libcairo2 75 libcanberra-gtk0 76 libcanberra-pulse 77 libcanberra0 78 libcdparanoia0 79 libcolord2 80 libcups2 81 libdatrie1 82 libdconf1 83 libdrm-amdgpu1 84 libdrm-intel1 85 libdrm-nouveau2 86 libdrm-radeon1 87 libdv-bin 88 libdv4 89 libegl-mesa0 90 libegl1 91 libenchant-2-2 92 libenchant-2-voikko 93 libepoxy0 94 libevdev2 95 libflac8 96 libgbm1 97 libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 98 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin 99 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common 100 libgl1 101 libgl1-amber-dri 102 libgl1-mesa-dri 103 libglapi-mesa 104 libgles2 105 libglvnd0 106 libglx-mesa0 107 libglx0 108 libgraphene-1.0-0 109 libgraphite2-3 110 libgspell-1-2 111 libgspell-1-common 112 libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 113 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 114 libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 115 libgtk-3-0 116 libgtk-3-bin 117 libgtk-3-common 118 libgtksourceview-4-0 119 libgtksourceview-4-common 120 libgudev-1.0-0 121 libhandy-1-0 122 libharfbuzz-icu0 123 libharfbuzz0b 124 libhunspell-1.7-0 125 libhyphen0 126 libiec61883-0 127 libjack-jackd2-0 128 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 129 libjson-glib-1.0-0 130 libjson-glib-1.0-common 131 liblcms2-2 132 liblcms2-utils 133 libllvm15 134 libltdl7 135 libmanette-0.2-0 136 libmp3lame0 137 libmpg123-0 138 libnotify4 139 libogg0 140 libopenjp2-7 141 libopus0 142 liborc-0.4-0 143 libpango-1.0-0 144 libpangocairo-1.0-0 145 libpangoft2-1.0-0 146 libpangoxft-1.0-0 147 libpciaccess0 148 libpeas-1.0-0 149 libpeas-common 150 libpipewire-0.3-0 151 libpipewire-0.3-common 152 libpipewire-0.3-modules 153 libpixman-1-0 ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========