On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:46:19 PDT
"Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Right now I've mounted my old SXDE iso and installing
> > the packages from it by hand... However, this is very
> > inefficient. Hopefully future distros of opensolaris
> > will include all the useful stuff.
>
> One CD can only hold just so much - that's what the repository
> (pkg.opensolaris.org, I think) is for. And while you and I might
> agree that include files are useful, the average no-clue click monkey would
> probably find one more GUI app (differing according to their needs) far
> more useful, since they couldn't even _spell_ C, let alone write a "hello,
> world"
> program in it! The sad part is that the world contains a lot more of them
> than
> of us...
None of which leads to the conclusion that leaving off the headers is
the best thing to do. Making developers happy helps generate more apps
for the platform, which is universally useful. Making users happy just
generates more users, which many people seem to see as a goal in and
of itself, but that isn't necessarily universal.
<mike
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