On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:52, Alan Cox wrote:
> There is nothing wrong with having dozens of web servers in an
> "everything for web serving" repository but in Fedora Core that is
> another thing: because of the drawbacks I mentioned you have to think in
> how useful are the features of teh additional program, how many people
> BADLY need them, how active is the maintenance of the program. And once
> you have thought about it you have to think again and again.
Linux is a program and not a collection. It does include lots of sound
drivers, lots of disk drivers etc because there is a need to.
To take another example - which should we throw out of fedora core
vi or emacs .... Clearly the answer is neither.
Vi or Emacs cannot be thrown: too many people depend on one of them.
On another hand an editor used by 0.1% of people would need to have
LOTS of features not found in either VI or Emacs in order to be
included. At 0.1% of user share if a program is included it should be
because the distrib maintainer thinks a larger adoption of this
program would be important for the future of Linux and not merely
because it has a couple of nice features not found in the defending
champion.
I do broadly agree with you however. In the case of apache we have a
web server which does everything in the generic web serving space.
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