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

Denys Vlasenko
2008-04-01T01:43:24Z

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.
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vda