Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:30:56 -0400 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: [patch for 2.6.26 0/7] Architecture Independent Markers |
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Hi Denys,
Denys Vlasenko wrote: > 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.
If it is a program code, you're right. However, the debuginfo is just a set of data files generated from c-source code by the compiler, so you don't need to maintain it.
Thank you,
> -- > vda
-- Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc. Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
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