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Unless its LFS. :) But yes, in general all mainstream Linux distros do ship with many tools/libs - X.org, GTK, Gnome, whatnot. Are all of them part of the OS?
by ksk 13y ago
Unless its LFS. :)
But yes, in general all mainstream Linux distros do ship with many tools/libs - X.org, GTK, Gnome, whatnot. Are all of them part of the OS? I see the package manager as a third party tool much like the rest since it does not interact with the core OS in any deep sense. But maybe my point of view comes from being a Linux user since 1996 with Slackware..
- rantanplan 13y agoLFS is not a distro. It's documentation to build your own distro. Xorg, GTK and all the irrelevant stuff you mention have nothing to do with it. If you remove yum/rpm or dpkg/apt from the system it simply stops working. Also you can't replace apt with yum and vice versa, as you can with KDE vs GNOME. Package management is a very integral part of a system, that's why we separate distros by their packaging system(apt-based, rpm-based, emerge, etc...) You keep spouting nonsense and you keep being voted down, yet your insistence in showing your ignorance is astonishing.