Re: Obsessed with a clean system
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
>
> > Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?
>
> No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous number of
> packages installed (because Debian makes it cheap to experiment and I don't
> get too worked up about removing the ones I don't use often), and the total
> size of my system (excluding /home, but including /usr/src and all of the
> kernel tarballs extracted in there) is 5.2 GB.
>
> That's roughly 5% of the size of a hard drive that I can buy for $60 at the
> local office supply store, or $3 worth of space. Even if I could cut that
> in half, I'd be saving about $1.50 worth of space at a cost of hundreds of
> dollars of time.
>
> I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB Connor
> in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying about it.
But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk
space. Why download upgrades to all those packages you never need?
Why fight broken upgrades on things?
Unless you run stable, I guess, and don't upgrade much.
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