On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 06:17:55PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/4/19 2:40 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > This is a whole other thread I've been talking about for years, but if > > we want to be concerned about dumping "garbage" on people's limited root > > file systems, there are other things we need to re-consider, like our > > notion that we have to install small files everywhere even though they > > aren't always used. > > > > So, if you want to talk about that, please start a whole new thread. > > > > 1. The idea that we should fix all existing problems before we can > prevent people from creating new ones is ridiculous.
I never said that we should fix all existing problems before we can prevent people from creating new ones. I just said that along these lines this is something else I thought we should talk about. It feels like an inconsistency to me. > 2. Those other files don't get installed to the root filesystem on the > systems that we're talking about. I do not understand what you think I'm referring to and which files you are talking about. The way I'm thinking of a root fs is, /bin, maybe /boot, /etc, /lib* and /sbin. > 3. Those other files generally aren't completely useless. A number of them are in the default installation.
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