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

[Piyush P Kurur]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:54:10AM +0530, Raghavendra Prabhu wrote:
> 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).
>

	
	I don't think it is about not having a feature X. For example
I think PnP is a worthwhile feature to have. But many do not like
hal/dbus. Again the counter argument is that disabling hal/dbus is
just an additional line in xorg.conf. Point well taken but if we can
compile xorg-server package without hal/dbus enabled and then
whomsoever wants to use hal/dbus make a small change in xorg.conf to
facilitate it (I dont know whether this is possible) I would prefer
such an xorg-server. Again it is purely my preference. Such an
xorg-server, I think will be both ``minimalist'' and ``featurefull''
whatever those terms mean.


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

  Yes many prefer lynx/w3m/elinks/edbrowse over other webbrowsers. But
saying that anti-desktop means mplayer with ascii is just streatching
it a bit too much. If you use screen + xterm + xmonad then you will, I
hope, see the advantage of not using gnome/kde.

Regards

ppk