Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Um, no. It's because you can bundle all that stuff in with the 
> application, but Linux doesn't.

  Linux? I thought you were talking about Firefox. Firefox != Linux.

  There's nothing stopping anyone from including whatever the program
needs in the installation package (or even linking everything statically
in the binary), but where do you draw the line? Should libc.so be included?
You know, maybe someone doesn't have it, so better include it just in case,
no?

  In Windows you are forced to always include everything in the package.
Then you end up with the problem of your system having hundreds of thousands
of dll files which you just can't delete because you can't know if something
is using it. With a package manager you can try to remove some library, but
if something requires that library, the package manager not only tells you
that this is so, but it even tells you *which* apps require that library,
and it even offers you the option of uninstalling also those apps if you
want.

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