> On Nov 14, 2007 11:25 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > a good percentage of the stuff configured is not required. configure > > spends a lot of energy looking for spiffy optimizations that can safely > > be skipped. > > You're right. But it doesn't matter. People are not willing to put in the > work. > > The go/no go decision for Plan 9 in many cases boils down to whether > tools can be built and will run. > > With zero effort. I don't like it, it's just what I've seen and heard > of from other sites. > > ron
is a myth that anything with computers can be done with zero effort. maintaining linux is a huge resource pig and that task is getting harder not easier. it's just a problem people are used to so it's not entered in the ledger. - erik
