Too many dependencies? was: Is Linux always so frustating?

[M. Fioretti]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 22:18:48 PM -0400, Jay Daniels
(drs at pointyhats.com) wrote: 
 
> Think of the internet as vast free means of communication and a very
> large library. You don't want to prevent a "secretary" from using
> this library of information do you?

By all means no, if *you* buy her a new computer, with *your* money.
Nothing personal, of course, just making the actual point.

My original question, and the whole RULE project for that matter, are
not an academic exercise. They both come from the fact that there are
a lot of (potential) users who initially turn to Free Software simply
because they cannot afford any new PC: schools, NGOs, etc...

Hence the serious need to have up to date, user friendly, mainstream
desktop software which is also as lean and mean as possible.

Of course a lot of the problem is not in FC or any other distro, I
have already specified what I meant by "careless packaging". Asking to
discover as many reasons as possible (in the distro, original
tarballs, whatever) helps to find all reasons.

Ciao,
	Marco Fioretti

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