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#51 2008-03-12 11:23:31

wuischke
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From: Suisse Romande
Registered: 2007-01-06
Posts: 630

Re: tiling wms

Xmonad itself is not so big (~4.6MB according to pacman -Qi), but ghc - the haskell compiler - is. (~47MB) gcc needs ~50MB, so it's not too bad.

It's just a completely different environment you need to install. Compare it with the base Perl-package (~37MB), erlang (~92MB), python (~50MB) or the java development kit (~87MB) and you'll see that's the cost of a new language with a compiler.

Decide for yourself if the cost of the new environment is worth it for you.

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#52 2008-03-12 16:36:28

blu3ness
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From: Edmonton, Canada
Registered: 2007-12-28
Posts: 169

Re: tiling wms

switched to awesome, definitely had a fuss to get the status bar to a state that I deem usable. But the shortcuts and the other configs are ridiculously simple. You hardly need to read documentation, and I find it to be a very nice tiling wm. tongue


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#53 2008-03-12 19:05:38

Don-DiZzLe
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From: Nederland
Registered: 2007-03-31
Posts: 233

Re: tiling wms

same here, +1 awesome.

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#54 2008-03-13 03:21:03

vogt
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From: Toronto, Canada
Registered: 2006-11-25
Posts: 389

Re: tiling wms

wuischke wrote:

Xmonad itself is not so big (~4.6MB according to pacman -Qi), but ghc - the haskell compiler - is. (~47MB) gcc needs ~50MB, so it's not too bad.

And just like you don't need gcc to run the static binary of dwm or awesome, you don't need ghc installed to run the binary that is generated from your config (generally found at ~/.xmonad/xmonad-i386-linux), or the binary of the default config; you do need ghc to make those binaries at one point.

But that would really take away from the joys of configuration!

EDIT: Summary: In other words, xmonad could have ghc and haskell-x11 as optional dependencies (and still run), but it almost seems mandatory that you configure it, so they make you take ghc.

Last edited by vogt (2008-03-13 03:23:09)

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