On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 01:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 08/27/2010 12:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > That wasn't the question. The question was what is the benefit of not > > having one. Is it simply that it saves 1.6MB of disk space? If so, uh, > > woop? > > I think, that reverses the responsibility. If anything is installed by > default, *that* needs a very good justification. For one thing, it > isn't just about space, I don't want any services running on my system > that I don't need and I don't want to take care of updates including > security fixes for those software either.
I think that makes sense if we're talking about adding a default, but taking one out - especially something that's been default in all Unix-y OSes for ever - is a different case. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
