On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 11:33, William Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote: > > > > > Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system? > > > > No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous number of > > packages installed (because Debian makes it cheap to experiment and I don't > > get too worked up about removing the ones I don't use often), and the total > > size of my system (excluding /home, but including /usr/src and all of the > > kernel tarballs extracted in there) is 5.2 GB. > > > > That's roughly 5% of the size of a hard drive that I can buy for $60 at the > > local office supply store, or $3 worth of space. Even if I could cut that > > in half, I'd be saving about $1.50 worth of space at a cost of hundreds of > > dollars of time. > > > > I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB Connor > > in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying about it. > > But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk > space. Why download upgrades to all those packages you never need? > Why fight broken upgrades on things? > > Unless you run stable, I guess, and don't upgrade much.
Doesn't matter to me... I have a local mirror for the 4 archs I use. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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