[arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

[Raghavendra Prabhu]

One thing I don't understand here is - why people crib that package B should
not have feature X. If you don't want that, ABS is for that. There are
plenty of packages which have additional dependencies like that mplayer(like
smbclient) or vlc(hal :) or lua).

And secondly, if you have stuff like hal/dbus running, it is not going to
slow your system unless you are running it on your mobile or a 100MHz CPU. I
have tried  hal/dbus  with and without. I don't see a noticeable latency.
 But disabling dbus can help in situations where you are not using that DM
or some other reason.(for example - evince - i disable it, thunar - i
disable it)

Finally, true anti-desktop is using lynx  or watching mplayer with ascii
renderer :) , all in virtual terminal(with directfb if required)



On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/12/2 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:06 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Arvid Picciani <aep at exys.org> wrote:
> >> > Thomas Bächler wrote:
> >> >> I consider such statements an insult
> >> >
> >> > Sorry Thomas,
> >> > my response was retarded.
> >> >
> >> > can you help me find another term i should use
> >> > to denote the desktop idea, that is not offensive?
> >>
> >> In general, it is called the WIMP paradigm - Windows, Icons, Menus,
> >> Pointing Device
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)
> >
> > Ouch, I'm sure that's a correct term, but I fail to see how using WIMP
> > in a combustible conversation is going to help any =)
>
> Yeah I just noticed the wiki page even points out that most people
> find it derogatory.
>