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H.Merijn Brand wrote: > I just want a 64bit ethereal on HP-UX > > ethereal needs glib and gtk+ > those need pango and atk > > so far so good. Understandable and OK. No, it's not, since they are the first few steps in the descend to hell. Why the fuck it seems that to install anything I need to install a mountain of deeply interconnected and bloated libraries (yes, I am looking at you, gnome and kde), and don't even get me started on trying to configure compile any of that stuff outside Linux. Just thinking about GNU configure and the GNU autotools make me see horrible violent visions through blood-red haze. Making software portable my ass. > But glib does not allow to be configured without NLS, hence requires gettext > and libintl, two of the most stupid extentions ever invented to make software > portable. --disable-nls should be the default, and supported by every single On that I can agree. They are prime WTFWTT (What The Fuck Where They Thinking) software. > piece of open source software.
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