Please help me find a distribution

[zugu]

Hello everyone!

I'm looking for a distribution where software is handled in a similar-to-PC-BSD fashion: self contaied libraries for every application. IMHO, this is the only correct approach to software management, for any OS.

I'll try any *NIX that satisfies this only condition.

So, is there anything else out there with similar software management?

Cheers.

[Zelmo]

I'm not sure, but I think Linspire's Click-n-Run software management system uses statically-linked libraries. Now that CNR is open, other distros will start including it as an option (I think Ubuntu has it slated for the next release).

IMO, static linking is a bit wasteful, as I've described in the last post in this thread.

[zugu]

I always thought CNR is nothing more that a flashy frontend to apt-get. I will, nevertheless, give cnr.com a try when it's launched.

I also read your post in the thread you specified and it pretty much resumes everything I want to know about linking libraries. While I am able to understand why Linux developers chose to dynamically link libraries back in the beginning, I fail to see why static linking is not the path to follow nowadays.

Redundancy can be optimized with resources that are currently spent on searching repositories of the next release for packages that can bring the whole OS down due to dependency issues.

HDD space is not a luxury anymore, and where space is a problem (embedded OS, etc), dynamic linking can still be used.

I would trade over gigs of my disk space any day for the countless advantages static linking provides. What reasons, other that inertia, has the *NIX world to not universally implement static linking?

[bryansmith]

There aren't many distros that do such a thing while only certain programs offer statically linked copies.

Please read the link in my signature. This should hopefully get you going.