On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Chris McCormick wrote:
Just because you can't conceive of a concrete example where someone
wants to run debian/ubuntu, but can't, or doesn't want to install X,
doesn't mean that it won't happen. Anyone who does a lot of development
on embedded systems knows that at least having the option of being able
to install and run the most minimal configuration of a piece of software
is very valuable for those corner cases
It's not that: it's that people who run debian/ubuntu and don't want to
install X but want to use pd, are precisely the kind of people who will
not use those packages, because they will want to remove some more guts
from it.
It seems like you are arguing for software bloat, against modularity and
against user choice, and I don't understand why you would argue that.
I'm arguing against making special efforts to provide features to people
who won't use them.
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