Easy choices!

Easy choices!

Posted Feb 24, 2005 8:04 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Easy choices! by ncm
Parent article: How would you shrink Fedora?

One principle could be that when there are more than one program doing the same thing with very similar feature set, leave the smaller. That way at least some "religious wars" would get a rational resolution. Eg. which is smaller, emacs or xemacs? This cannot however solve things like the emacs-vs-vi war, since someone used to emacs finds vi too hard to use, and vice versa.

The biggest source of wasted space is obviously including both GNOME and KDE (and their respective versions of accessories): both are very large systems doing much the same thing. All other redundancy removal opportunities pale beside this. But this may be a emacs-vs-vi kind of thing: leaving one out would cause many users to leave Fedora.

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