Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > (I am one of those developers -- and I think I'm in the minority here -- > that actually cares about bloat, and believes that systems should get > faster, not slower, as time goes on. In other words I believe that the > fight against the tendency of system software to consume all available > system resources (memory, cpu, disk, bandwidth) is worth fighting. If I > believed differently, maybe I'd be happier working on other operating > systems -- such as one produced in Redmond.) >
Please stop. What part of software repository do you not understand? If you don't want this on your system, don't install it. Do we have to have this conversation about every FOSS case you personally wouldn't install on your machine? And enough w/ the histrionics, please. Reducing the number of available software packages will not make Solaris run faster. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
