Linux fat/bloated

[Peter]

> cause... too damn many people trying to re-invent perl.  Perl is bad
> enough itself; it's on OK operating system, but it lacks a lightweight
> scripting language.  However, there seem to be a bunch of perl-clones

Imho Perl is not so bad but I wish they had not obfuscated the manpages 
...

Anyway shipping a Linux distro with 2,500 applications preinstalled 
requires four nines for zero bugs. Also the dependency tree is at least 
three deep for most applications. Unless something will be done about 
this soon (esp. dependencies) bad things will start happening. A 3-deep 
dependency tree is not sustainable imho. Maybe partially precompiled 
libraries can reduce the depth of the dependency tree.

Peter
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