Text 13789, 42 rader
Skriven 2009-12-31 12:27:46 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 13744 av Jame Clay (1:120/546)
Ärende: Program Dependancies
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Hello Jame.

24 Dec 09 10:07, you wrote to me:

 >> Like Audacious, I cannot install it without "pulse audio server"
 >> being installed as a dependency ... , I don't want pulse audio
 >> server, simply because it breaks my working audio system, without
 >> fail, every time.

 JC>    Is that on a Ubuntu system?   I heard they changed the standard
 JC> sound server on Ubuntu (back with v8.04) to Pulse Audio, and some
 JC> people had problems with their systems because of it...

On ubuntu 8.10 and eeebuntu 3.0 (based on ubuntu 9.*) ...

 JC>    If on Debian;  which version?

Not tried Debian, don't have the bandwidth to experiment with ...

The above is a single example of my problems with distributions of late ... , 
with each new version, applications seem to aquire more and more superflous 
dependencies ... , seems the philosphy now is, if a program can use another, 
for some or other perceived gain, it becomes a dependency ...

The "if it is there, it will be used, if not, only basic functionality will be 
all that is available ... , for most, basicvailability is all that is 
required.
I am at the stage, where, the convience of simply running apt-get install, and 
the hassles required by the new added dependencies are making it more and more 
attractive to use Slackware or similar, and build my own from a minimal 
install, it just takes time, I usually don't have - a situation of, time 
versus a lack of resources (HDD+RAM+CPU performance)

My main system is 6-7 years old, and was not the greatest and best back then 
... , currently my biggest gripe is HDD I/O ... , but my box crawls in 
comparison to my Step-son's INTEL Q9400 (?) quadcore CPU based system with 
8gig DDR3 RAM, and he is not going to sponsor me to a better system either.

Russell

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