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Pacho Ramos posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:52:33 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> What kind of argument is "disk is pretty cheap". I still administrate a |
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> laptop with a 250GB of disk space, and that space cannot be as large if |
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> you have a lot of files at home. Also, you are missing that having |
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> unneeded packages in world file will also cause them to be updated on |
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> every system updated, with the time it takes for compile. |
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Heh, and then there's netbooks. I got one of the first with a real sata- |
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based connector and a 120 gig hard drive. Sure, I could replace it now, |
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and may well do so some day, but the 120 gig works fine for what I need |
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ATM. But of course many of the first netbooks had 2, 4, 8, 16 gig SSDs. |
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That's REALLY tight, even if you're doing the actual builds in a build- |
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image on a different system and just rsyncing, so no portage tree, etc. |
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Meanwhile, very good point on the continual updates. It's just that cost |
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that encourages gentoo users, over time, to trim down to the package set |
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they actually use. In this context, that certainly means users would |
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unmerge ppp if they knew about it when they no longer needed it, but |
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knowing about it is the problem. (Of course here I've solved that using |
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sets as discussed in a different reply, but they're not yet available to |
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the stable gentooer, and the way it looks, may remain that way for |
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years...) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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