[arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:33:12 +0100
Arvid Picciani <aep at exys.org> wrote:

> hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that the Desktop Environments, GNOME and KDE, in
> > their quest for "integrated desktop experience" push more and more
> > stuff that's really only useful to those DEs deeper and deeper into
> > the system.
> > If you as a user need or want it or not, you get it.
> 
> I warned about that 2 years ago, and no one would listen. Thankfully
> we are at a point were it gets so undenyable that the anger about the 
> problem is gaining momentum.
> I'm lurking in my corner waiting for the day that the crowd is big 
> enough to form a community (maybe even a distro)
> 
> Until then, here are some steps to punch some sanity into your 
> (arch)linux destop:
> 
> 1) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS_-_The_Arch_Build_System
> 
> 2) IgnorePkg  = dbus dbus-core gconf hal
> 
> 3) foreach  in {xorg,emacs,qt,webkit,..}
> 
>    3.1) find and remove --enable-dbus,  --enable-gconf ,
>         --enable-hal, --with-hal,  --other-shite
> 
>    3.2) makepgk && sudo pacman -U
> 
> 4) foreach in {iron,chromium,cups,...}
> 
>      4.1)  take a random library, rename it to
>            libdbus, libgconf, libwhatever, and LD_PRELOAD it.
> 
>      4.2) notice that that the software will gracefully
>           handle the missing symbols, despite it "needs" them
> 
> 5) foreach in $unfixable_software
> 
>      5.1) pacman -R $unfixable_software
> 
> 
> 6) pacman -R dbus-core dbus gconf
> 
> 7) remove shit from  /etc/cron.d/
> 
> 8) Happy face
> 
> 

great mail.
I don't see what's so bad with dbus though.

Dieter