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Re: [OT] Re: [patch for 2.6.26 0/7] Architecture Independent Markers
- From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat dot com>
- To: Denys Vlasenko <vda dot linux at googlemail dot com>
- Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte dot hu>, KOSAKI Motohiro <m-kosaki at ceres dot dti dot ne dot jp>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu dot desnoyers at polymtl dot ca>, akpm at linux-foundation dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation dot org>, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>, systemtap-ml <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, Jim Keniston <jkenisto at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:30:56 -0400
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [patch for 2.6.26 0/7] Architecture Independent Markers
- References: <20080327132057.449831367@polymtl.ca> <20080328101500.GF30863@elte.hu> <47ECF3F9.4040906@redhat.com> <200804010343.07657.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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
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Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com