From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 04:40:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5797F16A4BF; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 04:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.mail.ru (mx1.mail.ru [194.67.23.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6740643F85; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 04:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from weiv@mail.ru) Received: from [217.70.108.197] (port=1026 helo=p197.bass4.sinor.ru) by mx1.mail.ru with esmtp id 19tn2o-0005fC-00; Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:40:27 +0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 16:58:43 +0700 From: Denis Troshin X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Business X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <29508631.20030901165843@mail.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: Not detected cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Denis Troshin List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:40:28 -0000 Almost every package I install requires a few other packages. This 'idea of using dependent packages' turns FreeBSD (and other unix-systems) to an ugly monster. For example, I don't need Perl or Python but a few packages I install require them. Does exist a programming under unix without these dependencies? P.S. Under Windows it is possible to write not bad applications which depend just on libraries (KERNEL32, USER32, GDI32). And these libs exist on every base system!!! Is it possible in unix? Before I thought that unix programs very compact, but they are huge!