Greg Folkert wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 07:55 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 07:09 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:39 MB for a PDF reader?!!! 96 MB installed! This is getting insane. OTOH, it's nice to see a color interface on a par with the Windows versions. Even better, the interface now works with my wheel mouse by default.It's probably statically-linked.It provides everything it needs itself. And they included the version specific libraries too. How nice. 24.5MB right there. 828940 libACE.so.2.07 3752716 libAGM.so.4.14 208940 libAXE16SharedExpat.so 205452 libAXE8SharedExpat.so 1088028 libAXSLE.so 287868 libBIB.so.1.1 3907804 libCoolType.so.5.01 734252 libJP2K.so 6927 libResAccess.so.0.1 590820 libWRServices.so 630904 libadobelinguistic.so.2.0.0 461134 libaglcnv.so.28.0 8381827 libagldata.so.28.0 1439177 libagli18n.so.28.0 1119744 libagluc.so.28.0 881965 libcrypto.so.0.9.6 277000 libcurl.so.2.0.2 211682 libssl.so.0.9.6 Nice eh?
Considering it is a commercial app, that is probably smart of them. For example, I have Neverwinter Nights and it includes SDL (though it checks an environment variable to see if you want to use your system's version). Besides, if you don't like it, edit the acroread shell script and tell it to look elsewhere for the libs. Then you can manage the libraries however you like. Like it or not, this is a trend we will see increasingly as commercial vendors ship Linux versions of their software. Basically, they ship everything except for libc. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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