[geeks] broken software

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Fri Dec 2 12:16:36 CST 2005


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> We were talking about broken software recently...
> 
> I just found a nice little gem in Gnome.
> 
> The clock applet won't load.  Checking its library dependencies with ldd
> I was amazed to find it depends on Firefox, the WWW browser.
> 
> Huh?
> .....


Congratulations.  You have discovered that Gnome is TEH BL0AT.

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