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Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

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Re: Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

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post #7

Well all I can say is grandma won't be installing kiss any time soon, looking at the instructions.

Grandma programmed in COBOL ( https://timeline.com/women-pioneered-computer-programming-th... ) and lisp ( https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html ). Don’t be so condescending.

Straight to the tribal, political realm. What do you expect to change? Should we say “Grandpa” instead? Should we try to include the experiences of everyone to a point where common sayings or one off phrases must be dissected for malicious intent? Come on

Re: Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

#13
I loved the idea (git everything!) until I read this:

"How do I remove a package and all of its dependencies? [...] The package manager does not do recursive dependency removal on removal of a package. This error-prone automation will not be added to the package manager. "

Re: Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

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post #7

Well all I can say is grandma won't be installing kiss any time soon, looking at the instructions.

Grandma programmed in COBOL ( https://timeline.com/women-pioneered-computer-programming-th... ) and lisp ( https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html ). Don’t be so condescending.

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Re: Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

#16
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grandma programmed in COBOL ( https://timeline.com/women-pioneered-computer-programming-th... ) and lisp ( https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html ). Don’t be so condescending.

Straight to the tribal, political realm. What do you expect to change? Should we say “Grandpa” instead? Should we try to include the experiences of everyone to a point where common sayings or one off phrases must be dissected for malicious intent? Come on

The reason why I must die lies in music and long toes; I simply do not comprehend many people anymore in these areas. When I was young, and yes, this is a while ago, we had real men and real women and I do understand that was way too binary but the pussyfooting around everything really goes way too far. That is me and as such I have to go before I do not understand anything anymore. I cannot believe people who want to be immortal will not go clinically insane by the weirdness that they see, decade after decade.

Re: Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

#17
post #14

I do appreciate how they don't even have a backend for the website (though saying that, I'm not sure why most Linux distributions would require a full backend for their website)

It's an operating system distribution... why bother with how its documentation is served

Re: Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

#18

I loved the idea (git everything!) until I read this: "How do I remove a package and all of its dependencies? [...] The package manager does not do recursive dependency removal on removal of a package. This error-prone automation will not be added to the package manager. "

This might seem like a limitation. But you can provide a base system with a toolchain & xorg with known dependencies and a limited set of packages (like a BSD base system). Then for every big and complex app clone that base system and build the app in a chroot/sandbox or container. That way you get the app and dont pollute the base system and uninstalling is just rm -rf

On every distro uninstalling packages never really reverts the system to its previous state, always leaves some junk behind.

Re: Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

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I loved the idea (git everything!) until I read this: "How do I remove a package and all of its dependencies? [...] The package manager does not do recursive dependency removal on removal of a package. This error-prone automation will not be added to the package manager. "

All of Gentoo's packages are in git and it does support recursive removal: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo

Re: Kiss Linux – A distribution with a focus on less is more

#20
post #18

I loved the idea (git everything!) until I read this: "How do I remove a package and all of its dependencies? [...] The package manager does not do recursive dependency removal on removal of a package. This error-prone automation will not be added to the package manager. "

This might seem like a limitation. But you can provide a base system with a toolchain & xorg with known dependencies and a limited set of packages (like a BSD base system). Then for every big and complex app clone that base system and build the app in a chroot/sandbox or container. That way you get the app and dont pollute the base system and uninstalling is just rm -rf On every distro uninstalling packages never rea…

>On every distro uninstalling packages never really reverts the system to its previous state, always leaves some junk behind.

That's not true at all. See Nix package manager (and NixOS the distro).

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