On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:48:38AM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Chris McCormick wrote:
Just because you can't conceive of a concrete example where someone wants to run debian/ubuntu, but can't, or doesn't want to install X, doesn't mean that it won't happen. Anyone who does a lot of development on embedded systems knows that at least having the option of being able to install and run the most minimal configuration of a piece of software is very valuable for those corner cases
It's not that: it's that people who run debian/ubuntu and don't want to install X but want to use pd, are precisely the kind of people who will not use those packages, because they will want to remove some more guts from it.
It seems like you are arguing for software bloat, against modularity and against user choice, and I don't understand why you would argue that.
I'm arguing against making special efforts to provide features to people who won't use them.
Ok, yes, I see.
Chris.