On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 03:34:39PM -0400, Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Jun 22, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Ken Cunningham > <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps unavoidable in some cases, but if you look around the web, this is > > in fact the #1 complaint about MacPorts: bloat. > > It's somewhat ironic given the current trend of everything being > containerized (and bringing in all of their duplicate dependencies > inside their containers)
Rats: you beat me to it. I'll restrict myself to reminiscing about dylibs having allegedly been invented (by Sun?) out of embarrassment, on finding hello.c was bloated, to 3MBytes iirc, by printf() dragging in half the known universe at link time. We now return you to your normal programming. -- Dr Martin J Carter Computer System Administrator (Mon--Wed only) Astrophysics but WFH, University of Oxford
