zRe: New joyride build 1452

Bernardo Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Fri Dec 21 01:45:39 EST 2007


On 12/20/07 14:56, Marcus Leech wrote:

> While I'm sympathetic to removing "bulk", I'm someone who developed his
> first networking stack at the age of 16 or 17  around 1980.  I think we
> shouldn't rush too hastily in making assumptions about what 12-year-old
> budding software genii will actually need.

As much as I sympathize with geeky kids, I think we shouldn't
penalize everybody by carrying tons of debugging tools.
If they are smart enough to use these things, one would expect
them to be able to deal with yum.

Regarding the specific case of network debugging tools, C.Scott
certainly has a point :-)

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