On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:48:38AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > 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.
Ok, yes, I see. Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
