Is there a Linux this this ?

[ptek]

Hi all,

I've tried on the past Red Hat, Debian and some other linuxs and I was seriously disapointed with all...

The package systems management are just insane !

An example : I pretended under Debian to install package A.
package A had dependecies on package B. So package B was completly installed (everything on B was installed, even documentation, not only the common files which A needed !)
Then package B needed package C and so on, and so on ...

Result : Instead of using 150kB of HD storage installing a simple little utility like A, I've lost 60MB ! :-o

Man, I payed for that HD! That made me mad and I throw Debian away.


So, my question is : is there a linux flavour that processes   the package installation in a efficient way, installing only the common files among the packages instead of copying them all ?

BTW : Is there a version os KDE or Gnome that runs on 640x480 without problems ?

Some say "linux is free".
I say linux "linux is free ... as long you don't have to buy a new 17 ou 19 inches monitor and a bigger hard disk"  :pissed:

[ptek]

Linux is free if your time has no value

 :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D
Good point !

[ptek]

No, install the files by hand from .tar.gz

Hmmm ... How can I know the files from package B needed by package A ? What command should I use ?

[ptek]

My personal favourite was from trying Linux a few years ago, where I wanted to install package A. Package A depended on package B, which depended on package C. Package C wouldn't install without package B.

Hmm I don't see your point ... What are you trying to say ?

[ptek]

I guess some of you guys didn't catch what I meant.

(ok, the subject "Is there a Linux this this?" has a bug
 :-D . It should be "Is there a Linux like this?" ) :laughing:

What I wanted was a eficient (in terms of disk space) package management.

Let me explane again :

If I was a good c/c++ programmer and have some free time and experience in Linux, i'll do the following package managment system :

OK, let's consider that nasty pack A which only needed a tiny wheeny little file from the bloated pack B  :-)

My great pack managment system would do the following :
 * install pack A
 * copy ONLY the required file from pack B
 * flag somewhere that pack A is completly installed
 * flag somewhere that pack B is incomplete

Now, since pack B wasn't needed to be completly installed (and it was not), its dependency from pack C really doesn't matter, so pack C (and D, E, F, till infinity) will not be installed !

That's it. Simple as that. Is that hard to make something so efficient like this ?

That's Amiga like 8-)