gEDA-dev: Gschem and Cairo graphics library

[Igor2]

>way to get real jobs done. Time wasted configuring is money down the  
>drain.
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>Consider a large commercial program like Mathematica. An X86/X86-64  
>installation of Mathematica 5.2 needs 640 MB of disk space. This  
>includes things like 45 MB of private libraries and 27 MB of fonts.  
>Bloat? Remember that disk space is down to ~$1/GB. By using things  
>that a distro *might* provide, Wolfram *might* be able to save 200 MB  
>or so. That's 20 cents worth of disk space. But what they gain by  
>this "bloat" is trivial installation on almost any reasonably  
>configured X86 Linux system. Wolfram lists tested distros, but others  
>work too (I run it on Gentoo, not listed by Wolfram).
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>Distro-specific packages are a good thing, and we should honor those  
>who maintain them. But there's also a place for a nearly foolproof  
>hermetic package. That's also an honorable pursuit.
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>John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
>jpd at wispertel.net
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