On Thursday, 31 October 2002 21:36, Serguei Chabanov wrote:
... In doing so, they are loaded with extraneous garbage which not only annoys, but also limits the power user.
Serguei, You just ruffled one of my favorite feathers ¿-). Since modules have already been invented, I wonder why so much material is saddled down on us users, instead of *offered* as available items to be taken *if and when* desired. To give just one (out of maybe hundreds) of examples: Do a 'find' and look for "amiga". There are thousands of kilobytes of files addressing the amiga computer. Is this AMD-K6 with SuSE-7.3 an amiga computer? Then, why do I have all those files?. *Again*, I'm not saying that those files are not important and should not exist! I'm saying that they *should not* have been installed on my computer *until* I specifically requested so. One of the many things which bother me a lot is that, at the installation time, I'm *asked* what applications I want, and then I get at least 25% more than I chose. For instance, I always check off "games," because I'm not a games player, but when the installation is finished, I have to go and delete from the K-menu the games that I explicitly asked *not* to have! (I know I'm only deleting the icon, not the file; to delete the file it'd be too much work!) Thanks for this chance to blow off some steam. -- Regards, gr (in /usually/ balmy, sunny Florida's Suncoast) [powered by SuSE-7.3 Linux 2.4.10]