[SM-Discuss] Why cmake?

Ivan Lezhnjov Jr. ivan.lezhnjov.jr at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 00:57:00 EST 2008


Friday 19 December 2008, David Kowis wrote:
> Vlad Glagolev wrote:
> > Another question disturbin me: why do you force devel/rc/testing versions
> > of the spells as they are stable? That's not good, and that's not GNOME
> > (Robin already argued about it).
> >
> > Neither me nor (i hope) the others wanna see their box like 00b00nt00 or
> > something else with a ton of useless binaries/libraries. Nowadays, Source
> > Mage is the only distro where I can keep my system as compact as possible
> > and pretty stable. So don't break my dream. Imho, we should keep it as
> > minimalistic as possible. That's why we use this system.
>
> Actually, our stated goal is to maintain as close to upstream as
> possible, not as minimal as possible. Usually, the two coincide, but not
> always.


Right. I personally don't think SMGL should be a minimalistic distro (well, it 
really depends on what you mean here by minimalistic!). The beauty of SMGL in 
my eyes is that you can make it both a minimalistic and bloated box whenever 
you want quite easily. I have almost 900 spells. No, I don't have all of the 
DEs and window managers installed. Just KDE 3.x and lots of various software. 
My interests are diverse and I always end up with lots of things in my life.

I guess you should really clarify what you meant to say for this discussion to 
have any sensible progress.

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