Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-22 Thread Paul S. Bains
. On 01/22/06 03:47:12, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Paul S. Bains wrote: You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc space. Well, the code _can_ be loaded, without being executed, and therefore taking up RAM. -Kristian Poul Herkild -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-22 Thread Paul S. Bains
:55:00, Alexander Skwar wrote: Paul S. Bains wrote: You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc space. That's not correct. It offers the potential of being executed and thus, it offers the potential of being a security threat. Thus it is better to NOT have the code

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-22 Thread Paul S. Bains
I forgot interpreted code - maybe that's what the original poster meant. I am used to only working with compiled binaries only. On 01/22/06 08:47:38, Paul S. Bains wrote: Perhaps I misunderstood the poster - unused, uncompiled code cannot be loaded into RAM, unless you editing it. Unused

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Paul S. Bains
You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc space. On 01/21/06 19:34:02, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 04:48:24AM +, b.n. wrote Ehm. Perhaps it's me being dense but: who cares about unused code? Ok, you have unnecessary, unused code sitting on your