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You know, I've bitched many a time about having to download so many dependencies etc... But I have also had my ars saved because my X-win system died (as mentioned before) without losing any other data. One of the most beautiful aspects of linux is its modularity, nothing is on that you don't want, and you can modify anything in anyway to fit your needs. We would lose modularity on say a slack box with a feature like this.

However, from a new distro standpoint, I don't see why it isn't possible. I saw people saying that "a new distro would require so many uploads and package changes to fit the distro", well ya! There was a time before RPM, yast, yum etc... What we are talking about here is another potential distro, however, it does seem like a lot of work with gentoo in the world. Oicdn, have you tried gentoo? I think you may find what you're looking for there.

The main problem with your proposition is the majority of the linux community uses linux for efficiency and reliability, you will lose these when dealing with binaries, or prepacked packages. Not necessarily reliability, but efficiency will be lost. An installed RPM benchmarked to compiled source -- compiled source will win everytime.

Mike.

I just realised that no-one actually answered the question
in the subject line yet:

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Why isn't Linux like.....

Because it was meant to be GOOD, not PRETTY
or FRIENDLY.

Cheers,
Tink

I'm a fan of learning...hence the reason I'm still using linux. I like learning the ins and outs, it's just at times, I wish things were a little easier.

I haven't tried Gentoo. But will sometime in the future. But I think perhaps the new distro "proposed" could be the "user friendly" version. Obviously there are people who like linux over windows for whatever reason, but some people would like easier versions, hence the reason this forum is aorund. You'll notice 99% of the software threads are about getting something to WORK. But like stated, once it works, it works well. But some people WOULD just like a Linux platform and reliability, with the ease of package installs for those who use 90% gui and 10% script.

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Originally posted by XavierP
OK. Personally, I can't see a problem with the distro side of it, making a very minimal distro is possible and there are a few out there. The problem I see is that you would need someone to post these programs (all umpty thousand of them - Debian quotes over 8000 packages) which is amega job in itself.

The way I would get around this (and I've not tried it) is to set up a repository directory on your hard drive. Let's say you are using YUM or APT. You point YUM/APT at that directory as well as the internet repositories. Open the gui frontend for that program (or do it via console) and when you install your program via APT/YUM, it would also resolve dependencies.

Job done.

That seems like a pretty good idea... So that would be a lot like the System32 folder in Windows, with all of it's dll's right?