Rant of the day: Insane dependencies for liveusb-creator

Clemens Eisserer linuxhippy at gmail.com
Sat May 11 09:32:47 UTC 2013


> 14 packages, 104 MB installed.... just for a simple GUI that calls
> other low-level system utils...
> Sheesh...

+1

For me, most of the time it even doesn't work correctly and fails with
obscure messages or stack-traces in some python code.
I switched to unetbootin, which has also a lot of dependencies, but
seems to work really reliable.

- Clemens


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