From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 21 05:11:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA22571 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 05:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA22559 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 05:11:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from uplink.eng.umd.edu (uplink.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.181]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA12308; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:11:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by uplink.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA02923; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:11:15 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: uplink.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:11:15 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@uplink.eng.umd.edu To: Michael Smith cc: Nik Clayton , davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au, terry@lambert.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! In-Reply-To: <199611211217.WAA13171@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > If you like, I am respectfully offering the gauntlet to the > anti-bloatists, and suggesting that they nominate what they feel to be > the core of the system, and then do something about it. On this point I can agree. If the folks who are concerned about bloat feel strongly enough about that, why couldn't we have a minimal distribution *that they have to maintain* for them? Then they could also field the questions from users on why different things don't work on their boxes, and the rest of us could stop hearing about bloat. I would personally kinda like to folk some gui stuff into the distribution, so things could get even more friendly, and I don't mean initial install, either. This would be absolutely impossible in today's one distribution paradigm. Having two dists would kinda free everyone up. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------