Hi Mercury,
The UPX issue would be irrelevant if we didn't ship binaries at all. Hear me out. :)
Well, even our compressed sources are huge compared to the binaries. I think we would be "more papal than the Pope" if we worried about whether OpenSSL has any complaints against getting UPX-compressed. And then there is UPX-UCL, which is more open/free than UPX-NRV. Not to forget that it can be very hard to compile in particular some of the larger packages. You may need huge compilers along with zillions of dependencies. And of course you would be tempted to include the sources of the compilers as well! I know that things like Linux from scratch exist. But I believe those are horrible wastes of download bandwidth, disk space and compile CPU time, all for a tiny little gain at runtime because you get binaries exactly for your hardware. To begin with, we would need an extra DVD "everything from DJGPP". Just my 2 Eurocents.
However, shipping binaries could be seen as a form of bloat because they are completely redundant when each package is supposed to have complete source code included...
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