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diff --git a/gmi/c109b65c.txt b/gmi/c109b65c.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7765632 --- /dev/null +++ b/gmi/c109b65c.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +ID: c109b65c-811a-41a3-820c-325c66bbec9f +Title: Rant #4 - Void Linux +Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net> +Date: 2021-09-05T11:51:31-00:00 +Topics: Computing, Rants + +I think once or twice I tried to bootstrap that distro using a chroot tarball on my current host. +So far the distro's repositories themselves are terribly broken in so many ways. +For example, Profanity , a TUI client for XMPP somehow depends on GTK+3 for no stupid reason (a text-based program pulling on a graphical toolkit? what the hell?) +X.Org pulls on like three hundred dependencies most of them are unneeded (e.g. Wayland, which is itself a really different thing.) +I doubt the maintainers of the official repository are doing this intentionally or not, because it's really that bad. +If I could, I would just hard-fork it and try to fix that mess. xbps is good and all but the default repos seriously are broken. +Not even 'pacman' , which is Arch's package manager could fuck things up like this... +It also has its own issues, but ..... |