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Re: FSF negociations

Hi,
my opinions about Bruce' negotiations:

> 1. Install 100% unstripped executables on the hard disk.

Against. However, it would probably be a good idea to add some sort of
documentation to /usr/doc/<something>/debug_it_yourself that tells users
how exactly they could get hold of the sources and produce unstripped, 
debuggable binaries. Although most of us probably know where to get the 
source and how to recompile for gdb usage, the average user might not.

> 2. Install source code on the hard disk whenever the binary package is
>    installed.

No way. I'm happy I could borrow a 1.3 GB harddisk from my university for
the purpose of compiling packages, but I would never be able to hold unpacked
sources for all packages on my system. Disk space HAS become much cheaper in
the past, but not yet THAT cheap.

> 3. Make X-Windows, Emacs, and VI standard, not optional, parts of the system.

Against. Personally I'm a VIM user, and even if I might install emacs on
my system some day for friends, this cannot be made an obligation.
Similarly, X11 cannot be required to be installed on every ever-so-tiny
Linux system - I know of someone here who just dug out his old 386 box
to make it a print server, and he doesn't use more than 20 MB for the entire
Linux system.

Just my $0,68,
Frank