So sprach �Yura Gusev� am 2002-01-29 um 21:24:31 -0500 : > No i dont see any logic in this statement. > > What I'm meaning to say: There might be some uses of any software, but > I'd say for the majority of the target audience (home users), any software > is not needed. So it should be removed. > (or even better replace "any software" with "software") > > Do you agree Alexander?
Well, to some extent, yes, I agree. In a perfect world, only software which is actually needed should be installed. If I don't need a given software, why should it be installed? Another example of "bloat": I use grub as my bootloader. This means I don't use lilo. But when I try to rpm -e lilo, I get an error message saying that lilo is required by basesystem. IIRC, there's some stuff in the lilo package which is also needed by grub. But anyhow, because I don't do --nodeps removes, I'm forced to have 2 bootloaders of which I only use 1. And maybe some users don't even need lilo when they are using this dos linux starter. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die g�nstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 15 days 10 hours 49 minutes
