On Tuesday 22 April 2014 23:56:00 Tom Furie wrote: > If there is a package on my systems which I know nobody uses it gets > removed, simply because it doesn't need to be there. But then, I come > from an age when every byte mattered and think if people were as frugal > now as they were then our modern systems would perform even better than > they already do.
Many of us come from that age. But a) attempting to remove a desktop can mess up a system and b) I find it quite useful to have two desktops available. Then if one breaks I still have the other to sort out the mess if I want to see something in a GUI, or even to use a more friendly terminal for CLI work. Trying to save a few GB on a TB drive seems to me to be pointless. When I first started driving I had to change down gear to get up a hill, and double declutch to get into first gear. I don't therefore drive a modern car in the same fashion. Writing a concise, elegant program is different again. There is a satisfaction in elegance that is missing in prolixity. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201404230852.51663.lisi.re...@gmail.com
