On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 01:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 08/27/2010 12:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
That wasn't the question. The question was what is the benefit of not having one. Is it simply that it saves 1.6MB of disk space? If so, uh, woop?
I think, that reverses the responsibility. If anything is installed by default, *that* needs a very good justification. For one thing, it isn't just about space, I don't want any services running on my system that I don't need and I don't want to take care of updates including security fixes for those software either.
I think that makes sense if we're talking about adding a default, but taking one out - especially something that's been default in all Unix-y OSes for ever - is a different case.