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Comment: Re:Linux needs more desktop forks (Score 1) 185

by g1zmo (#43864765) Attached to: Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out

This is all pretty much exactly why freedesktop.org (formerly XDG) was formed.

n+1 standards and all that, but the major specs have been adopted by every DE that I'm aware of.

As to when it will all filter down to distros to split out unnecessary package dependencies, I have no idea. I'm not familiar with a whole lot of packaging systems, but AFAIK there is no package installer which can mirror the compile-time --enable-feature and --disable-feature behaviour of configure scripts such that you only draw in packages dependencies based on the optional features you select, and don't end up installing pulseaudio because you wanted a lightweight notepad-like text editor (for a made-up example).

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