* Ketelaars, Björn [2007-05-10]: > I really dislike the idea of installing binaries/libraries, which are > not going to be used for a certain task/application. It's the same > with the compiler; if you do not use it, do not install it.
Do you use tcpdump on your webserver or sudo or ospfd or bgpd or ...? You install all kinds of crap on your webserver that you will never use. > I am wondering what the reason is for abandoning expat from ports - > Xenocara maybe? Yes, xenocara provides its own libexpat and we ran into trouble with both, xenocara's libexpat and the expat package being installed. Nikolay