Messages in this thread | | | From | Denys Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: [patch for 2.6.26 0/7] Architecture Independent Markers | Date | Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:43:07 +0200 |
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On Friday 28 March 2008 14:34, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > for heaven's sake, we can have 3 years of _full Linux kernel history_, > > with all 87875 commits, with full changelog and dependencies and full > > source code included, packed into a rather tight, 180 MB git repository > > ... > > > > [ and then i havent even begun about the on-disk footprint of this > > monstrum, after the packages have been installed: an additional 850 MB. > > Puh-lease ... ] > > Thank for Moore's law and all storage engineers, nowadays we can buy > an 1TB(=1000GB!) HDD with less than $300!(I also surprised...) > And many other compressed filesystem can be used for saving disk space.
This is not a valid technical reason for creating bloatware.
Bloatware's main problem is not a cost of storing it or downloading it. The main problem that over time it becomes an unmaintainable monstrosity nobody is willing to deal with.
I would rather try to find and fix a bug in 2000 lines of C code than in 200 000 lines. -- vda
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