Re: A few equivalent apps for Unix

From: Charles, Auriance (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 11/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:19:10 -0000

On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:05:14 -0000, Michael Heiming
<michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

>>> Why is this a problem?
>>>
>> Perhaps because he doesn't want to have to install half of
>> Gnome.... There are a number of packages around that use
>> either GTK or QT and installing the package often means
>> installing most of Gnome or KDE....

This is what I mean indeed :)
I don't want to have to load Gtk+ as Qt is already loaded with KDE.

> Seems as if current budget PC come with hds 80-200 GB, so what's
> the problem with installing 10 or more additional packages,
> taking a few hundred MB on the disk?

The problem is not the HDD space, it is the amount of RAM memory. Not many
people have more than 512MB. 

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