On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 11:27 -0500, 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 [snip] > 211682 libssl.so.0.9.6 > > Nice eh? Yes, and smart of them. I concur with Roberto: the best way for a closed-source, commercial, end-user app to ensure that needed dependencies are met is... to ship the dependencies with the app. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Our computers and their computers are the same color. The conversion should be no problem!" Unknown
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