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    SubjectRe: [OT] Re: [patch for 2.6.26 0/7] Architecture Independent Markers
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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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