[CentOS] How to install XFCE on CentOS 8?

Thu Feb 25 21:07:18 UTC 2021
J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56 at btinternet.com>

On 25/02/2021 20:56, Simon Matter wrote:
>>
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>> On 25/02/2021 18:18, Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote:
>>> Am 25.02.21 um 15:12 schrieb J Martin Rushton via CentOS:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 25/02/2021 13:37, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>
>>>>>
>>>> I was recently looking at Raymond's book "The Art of UNIX Programming"
>>>> from 2003.  He, along with contributors Thompson (inventor of UNIX),
>>>> Kernigham (C and AWK), Korn and others of that callibre, espouse
>>>> creating "little tools" that do one job reliably and well.  The likes
>>>> of Gnome or systemd certainly would never fit into this philosophy.  I
>>>> really think we have lost a lot of maintainability and ease of
>>>> management over the last 20 years as applications are stretched to do
>>>> ever more.
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, do "ldd /bin/awk" and you see interconnected dependencies.
>>>
>>> I see it the same way and if I want, I would see it the same way with
>>> a broader view. Do one job well - interaction with the user, Gnome.
>>> Do one job well - when a service is stopped, it is stopped (systemd).
>>>
>>> So it depends of the scope of view. Sure, there are tools that try
>>> to do everything. One that came into my mind is YasT from SuSE.
>>> That one I would classify as not fitting into the common unix
>>> philosophy.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Leon
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>> I don't want to get bogged down in arguments about which application has
>> the most dependencies.  It's really a matter of scale.  Depending upon a
>> few system libraries is reasonable, but when when the ramifications
>> extend to dozens then perhaps a pause for thought might be suggested?
>> Oh and BTW:
>>
>> bash-4.2$ ldd /bin/awk
>> 	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffcc876a000)
>> 	libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fcd25995000)
>> 	libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fcd25693000)
>> 	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcd252c5000)
>> 	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fcd25b99000)
>>
> 
> That's on which OS? Certainly not EL8, right?
> 
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J Martin Rushton MBCS