Re: Open Source does mean easily re-compile-able

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:32:37 -0000 (UTC)
kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) gabbled:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:40:46 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
 

You think it's normal that on a Linux installation where, say, no 'cc'
(as prominent example of a development tool) is installed the package
manager would first install ALL the necessary compilers and scripting
languages just to create a binary (as opposed to just installing the
binary)?

 
The discussion has to do with creating your own version of the binary,
rather than using the repo-provided version.

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Right.
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Anyway, to be honest, I never realized how bloated Thunderbird is.
The source RPM thunderbird-128.5.2-1.fc41.src.rpm is 690MB and
the main source directory unpacked is:
>
~/tmp/tb/thunderbird-128.5.2 $ du -sh
4.2G    .

Welcome to Lego brick style programming where the main application devs are
incompetant halfwits unable to implement even simple things themselves beyond
designing (if that applies to Thunderbird) a GUI so have to import 101 libraries
to do everything for them.

I've written my own newsreader system and while admittedly its command line
only it requires only one 3rd party library which is OpenSSL.