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On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 06:17:55PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 11/4/19 2:40 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > This is a whole other thread I've been talking about for years, but if |
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> > we want to be concerned about dumping "garbage" on people's limited root |
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> > file systems, there are other things we need to re-consider, like our |
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> > notion that we have to install small files everywhere even though they |
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> > aren't always used. |
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> > So, if you want to talk about that, please start a whole new thread. |
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> 1. The idea that we should fix all existing problems before we can |
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> prevent people from creating new ones is ridiculous. |
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I never said that we should fix all existing problems before we can |
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prevent people from creating new ones. I just said that along these |
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lines this is something else I thought we should talk about. It feels |
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like an inconsistency to me. |
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> 2. Those other files don't get installed to the root filesystem on the |
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> systems that we're talking about. |
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I do not understand what you think I'm referring to and which files you |
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are talking about. |
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The way I'm thinking of a root fs is, /bin, maybe /boot, /etc, /lib* and /sbin. |
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> 3. Those other files generally aren't completely useless. |
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A number of them are in the default installation. |