On Sunday 15 February 2009 04:14:05 Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:37 -0700, Jake Peavy wrote:
> On 2/14/09, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
>
> Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
> > most people with automatic updates might not have noticed,
>
> but if
>
> > you look closer, the recent bunch of updates, including KDE
>
> 4.2,
>
> > installs the MySQL server on the machine (and some other
>
> database
>
> > related stuff which MySQL depends on).
>
> Took a quick look at
http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/ and on the
> surface
> seems like a reasonable direction/idea. So, not quite sure as
> to why
> you may consider this to be a big issue.
>
>
> Linux bloat continues unabated.
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I think...
- that you would have to have kde-pim package installed to bloat here
- agreed on bloat but considering that my Acer Aspire One is 10 Gb
Windows installation and 5 Gb Fedora 10 and I have a lot more 'stuff'
installed in Fedora.
Agreed. My other laptop has to dual-boot with XP. However, I only require it
for one application. I partitioned it with 8GB for XP system (no data) and to
my surprise the most basic install filled it to danger point. I could
certainly run a modern linux distro, with more applications, in the same
space.
More importantly, in linux, if you think something does install too much, you
do have a choice.
Anne