[CrackMonkey] for all you Pine fans

[Tom Gilbert]

* Aaron Lehmann (aaronl at vitelus.com) wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 08:55:16PM -0600, Joakim Ziegler wrote:
> > libbibex depending on glib and libdb doesn't mean mutt would have to, though.
> > You would only add two dependencies to mutt; libibex and libunicode.
> 
> 
> Ummm....
> 
> Excuse me?
> 
> Is that Gnome dependency logic?

Grrrrr!

Library dependencies mean two things:
  o code reuse
  o decreased memory usage through shared libraries

You can remove dependencies in software by two means:
  o Deny the addition of new features
  o Write everything you need yourself, from scratch, and hardcode it
    into the application so nothing else can use it and nothing gets
    shared between instances.

How is either of those desirable?

The only explanations I can see for your hatred of dependencies are:
(keeping to the two points per argument metric)
  o You are using a distribution with no (or poor) automatic dependency
    resolution.
  o You don't know how to use your distribution's package manager.

Tom.
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