Steve Litt wrote: "Unfortunately, these guys weren't unusual. Way too many programmers, in the name of avoiding reinventing the wheel, integrate somebody else's wheel, when all they needed was an easily available single spoke. You know who suffers? The distro maintainers and the users."
That is precisely my programming philosophy. Like you, I ask, 'Why would anyone include a huge mess of libraries just to use a few functions?' I have been using my version of simple-netaid since Devuan's inception. If someone produces a competitor that is simpler and lighter on resources, it will definitely be the end of my creation. In fact, before learning about Firefox, more than ten years ago, I used a web-browser I wrote based on an activeX object exporting Microsoft Internet Explorer web-browser engine. Firefox was far better than trying to tame Internet Explorer in disguise, so I switched without regrets. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng