On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 02:53 -0400, Ralph Ellis wrote:
3z5y05q02@sneakemail.com wrote:
As I understand it, supplementary KDE packages are now provided through the build service on openSUSE rather than on suse mirrors in suse/[arch]/supplementary/KDE. These packages appear to contain unstripped binaries, greatly increasing their size (55 MB for kdebase3 rather than about 22 MB for previous stripped versions). Is this intentional, or is it a bug? I realize hard drives are very large now, but an extra 800 MB for stable KDE doesn't seem very useful.
A gigabyte here, a gigabyte there - pretty soon we're talking about real space. I guess that it is a perspective thing. I still remember my first 2 megabyte hard drive. Software always seems to expand to take up more room but Suse 10.1 even with everything but the kitchen sink installed still fits everything comfortably on 60 gigabyte partition on my hard drive. I use an external 300g hard drive to do image backups for the full Suse - Windows setup. Gradually, as I migrate all the legacy files over and figure out how to do an answering machine in Suse, I will probably replace the Windows partition with an expanded Suse setup. Hard drive space is so cheap now, I don't think software writers worry about compact code.
Which is the reason that software requires an ever increasing amount of CPU power. Efficient code is a thing of the past, just like the dinosaur. Think of how much faster programs would run if they were all written in assembler. Probably not the most efficient for the programmer but it is for the computer. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com