Adventurous yet Safety-Minded

[Kevin Kofler]

Alexander Kahl wrote:
> Please define "massive" if you're keeping exactly what's needed to keep
> everything running and prune anything else by using a sophisticated,
> tunable garbage collection mechanism.

The whole point of the exercise was to do a lot of updates. But the more 
updates we do, the more disk space the old versions you're keeping around 
are going to eat up.

>> and also not compliant with the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard).
> Yep. It's much better, comparable to the GAC (global assembly cache) of
> the CLR (Mono),

Yuck! Do you seriously call that "better"?

Anyway, the FHS is not really negotiable.

        Kevin Kofler