grip being removed [Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes]

Sean Middleditch elanthis at awesomeplay.com
Fri Jan 28 15:56:22 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:52 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > Right.  "Operating System."  XMMS is not part of an OS, it's an
> > application that nobody strictly needs.  You don't need to put XMMS in
> > Fedora Core in order for Core to use or run XMMS, and its removal will
> > not reduce Core's audio capabilities in the least.
> 
> hmm, OS... let's deliver the kernel only, the rest is just bloat :)

Sounds like a plan.  Though maybe we should throw in the boot loader,
too.  I think those together plus the initial ramdisk should be enough
for most Linux users.  They can grab auxillary things like binutils and
rpm from Extras.  ~_^

Manual system bootstrapping is k00l.

> 




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