On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:00:50 +0200 Tomas Bodzar wrote: > So in the end you have computer full of > unneeded SW which is enabled, you don't know about that, mostly it has > some bugs so your security is lower or even zero. > > Guess why Windows, MacOS X, Linux have so much security issues and > bugs. It's not only about design. Part of that is how "appropriate" is > their install of packages.
Too right, there are a fair few packages that have dependencies they want to run that i've never needed. The worst case Windows example of absolutely needlessly doing this type of thing, is preloaders for office and adobe. How rediculous to assume your product is so good that someone will you use it on every boot. OTOH it would be possible to have an option to pkg_add to request if you want changes made. This would actually slow down an install and wouldn't be used by most users who use their own install scripts. A pre-requisite to this would be an easy to use installer. It may even attract the type of user or questions that would waste the elitist type of developer that OpenBSD harbours. There are also far more important things that they are working on and they do it for themselves not others. It would unlikely be such a good OS if they tried to cater for everyone. Consider Linux and the desire to have /tmp and /home executable due to an often used single partition rather than suggesting a minimally correct partition setup like arch linux I think does in order to make the install easy. Then you get someone saying Linux could be vulnerable to viruses or remote executions of a certain kind and actually it's just they haven't followed unix design.
