Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:11:15 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk>, davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au, terry@lambert.org, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961121080520.2830A-100000@uplink.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611211217.WAA13171@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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